Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_

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A mixed-media bangle with different elements like beads and wire dangling off it, in colours of red, orange and yellow. Free exhibitions NSW.
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Free exhibitions in New South Wales August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in New South Wales this August, spanning jewellery, painting, installations, sculptural relief and more.

A white walled gallery with three small photographs featuring a red background and three sculptural works placed low on the ground. Free exhibitions.
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Free exhibitions in Victoria August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in Victoria, including major solos featuring Darren Sylvester, Liam Fleming, Mike Parr, Katrin Koenning and…

Paper notes flying onto a stage with one performer standing in the centre with arms outstretched.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025

New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.

A middle-aged First Nations man wearing a khaki shirt looking towards the camera in a neutral but friendly expression.
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Bangarra Rehearsal Director – so you want my arts job?

Rehearsal Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre shares his transition from performer to leader, and why culture matters.

A figure with curly red hair and tattooed arm looking down. Opportunities and awards.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 11-17 August 2025

New award opportunities, commission for Queensland playwrights and grants up to $80,000.

Comical ceramic figures depicting Aboriginal people in different uniforms.
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Best free exhibitions in Australia August 2025 – guide

From PICA’s Hatched Graduate show to 20 years of Modern art in Queensland, discover the best free exhibitions in Australia…

Felicity (Flick) Chafer Smith and Matty Chilly, Indigenous Arts Officers at The Torch. Two portrait photos rendered in black and white on a gradient orange background.
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Indigenous Arts Officer – so you want my arts job?

Two Indigenous Arts Officers at The Torch share how they empower incarcerated mob through art and why they love their…

Opportunities, grants & awards. Image: Marty O’Neill on Unsplash.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025

Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.

The artist Loribelle Spirovski (a young woman with brown hair in an up do smiling) with her hand on the shoulder of her sitter, William Barton (a middle-aged Aboriginal man holding a didgeridoo) in front of a large portrait painting of Barton sitting at in a room with a similar position.
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Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025

William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.

Two large illuminated relief works, one orange and one dark blue, displayed on a wall. A figure is observing the orange work. free exhibitions.
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Free exhibitions in South Australia August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in SA this August, including SALA, Mark Valenzuela at ACE, Ramsay Art Prize and more.

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