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The 'handmade' label is no longer enough – makers must tell new stories
In this new era of AI, creatives are relying on the 'handmade' label to lure in audiences and sell their…
'Dynamic and fresh': emerging makers unleashed on the Gold Coast
Artisan and HOTA team up to present an exhibition supporting Queensland's emerging craft and design practitioners.
'We can all feel it': Australia’s craft sector says it's time for a national making agenda
The MADE 2026 symposium asked what the craft sector could achieve if it started speaking as one national voice.
Studio tips for makers to blitz the end-of-year demand
How do you manage rising costs and still ramp up studio production for the end-of-year push… and its much-needed cash…
Margaret Preston retrospective offers a rethink for our times
Twenty years after Margaret Preston’s last retrospective, the NGV in Melbourne presents a compelling look at a complicated modernist and…
Sydney Contemporary 2026: standout booths, artists in demand and the energy on the ground
Did Sydney Contemporary’s 10th anniversary edition feel different, and what were the standout booths at Australasia’s largest art fair?
The NATSIAAs are breaking down the polarising divide between city and remote artists
The NATSIAAs are more than an art award. They're also an evolving model of what expanded cultural exchange can look…
Ten editions on, has the Sydney Contemporary art fair kept its big promises?
While sales have ebbed, signs of market maturity and growing engagement are recalibrating how we register success of Australia’s largest…
At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, art refuses to stay safely on the wall
HEAP is an ephemeral commission engaging eight artists and 120 tonnes of soil for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Ryan Presley lands $100,000 Telstra NATSIAA Art Award with a Renaissance-inspired artwork
What does this year’s Telstra NATSIAA prize list reveal about the future of Indigenous art?