Enaction Plan: reassembling the past with Julie Gough

Julie Gough will discuss her recent Fellowship research focusing on colonial collections and their role in shaping Tasmanian Aboriginal histories…

Figurine painting workshop with Eleanor & Giovanni

Join award-winning animators and artists Eleanor & Giovanni for a workshop based on their Enlighten Festival 2026 illumination The Page…

SES 1 Branch Head, Assistant Director Public Programs

Discovering the real Gough Whitlam: Troy Bramston on writing a life

Join the Friends of the National Library and Troy Bramston, senior writer with The Australian and author of the most…

2026 Craft + Design Canberra Emerging Contemporaries

2026 Craft + Design Canberra Emerging Contemporaries is Craft + Design Canberra’s prestigious award exhibition celebrating the next generation of designers and makers. 

JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a Passion

JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media.

Sculpted By Lifestyle

This exhibition reimagines the seven sins through an unapologetically Australian lens—less moral judgement, and more reflection on how culture, habit,…

Must-see museum blockbusters in 2026

Dive in to a stunning range of major museum shows in Australia this year – from exciting new permanent displays…

England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson

How did early modern legal and poetic texts conjure an Anglo-British sea-empire when no ‘Great Britain’ existed?