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Residency in National Park offers transformative career experience
Working with park rangers, map curators, national archives and a leading design organisation, this unique residency is calling for artists.

Introducing Gill Minervini, Vivid Sydney’s new Festival Director
Gill Minervini gives us a sneak peek into what the festival has to offer including a future of more collaboration…

Exhibition Review: She-Oak and Sunlight, NGV Australia
This exhibition of much-loved Australian Impressionism embeds women and First Peoples in the male-dominated historic narrative, and will knock your…

Curatoriums are the new programming superpower
As the Biennale of Sydney unveils its new curatorium, we look at shifting exhibition models in a post-pandemic rethink, as…

Bridging the art/sport divide with creative energy
A new exhibition turns to themes of race, gender, technique and agency, to break down the silos of culture and…

Where cultural tourism and a national botanic art prize meet
With an eye on conservation, a new art prize in Western Australia radically reframes botanic art through a contemporary lens.…

So you want my arts job: Freelance Arts Photographer
Daniel Boud has photographed celebrities from Flume to Cate Blanchett and Ai Wei Wei, and has worked with most major…

Get illuminated: The Top Fives on all things to do with light art
From outdoor light events to public art using light and light exhibitions on right now – we bring you a…

What contemporary art looks like in 2021: the Ramsay and NATSIAA finalists announced
With the announcement of two of Australia’s most prestigious art awards this week – the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize and…

The turgid trajectory of sculpture in education (from the archives)
To celebrate International Sculpture Day on 24 April, we revisit this 2018 article that asks whether our education system is…