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Sophie Cape, an ex-athlete, wearing all black with a big smile, standing in front of abstract landscape painting in rusty colours.
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Athlete-turned-artist wins one of Australia’s most lucrative art awards worth $100k

Sophie Cape was once destined for the Olympics, but now she has brought that raw energy to her art –…

A scene from the 2025 ROOKE production 'Wilds', featuring performers Conor Wild and Freyja Wild. Contemporary circus company ROOKE is one of the inaugural members of the Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange. The photograph depicts a female-presenting acrobat wearing brown garments and performing a headstand; in the background, a male-presenting performer in blue clothes and black boots sits in a folding chair beside an inflatable palm tree.
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Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange to develop statewide strategic plan by and for the sector

The newly formed Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange will develop a 10-year strategic plan for the state’s performing arts sector, and…

Man standing in foggy mountains holding up a yellow flag. The Unconformity
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The Unconformity: anything but usual - the intimate festival changing how we engage

The intimate and daring Tasmanian festival, The Unconformity announces its October program - and it's a cracker.

A publicity image for 'Influencer'. a Junction Arts Festival dance production about social media. The image shows a group of people half-visible in a cloud of theatrical smoke: a pasted-on photo of a blonde-haired woman obscures one of the faces, which has a male figure in a brown coat and red beanie holding up a ring-light in front of them.
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Junction Arts Festival's 2025 program celebrates Launceston culture

Celebrating Launceston-based companies and artists, Junction also draws in mainland performers and musicians from across Tasmania.

A figure in a domestic dining room holding a rifle with a round spotlighting shining on them. Free exhibitions in Tasmania.
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Free exhibitions in Tasmania August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in Tasmania this August, including the freshest Tasmanian talent and first major show of Sam…

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…

A woman in black is standing in mist. Around her a small lights that look like stars in the production of The Audition.
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The Audition review: a new musical gets a promising start in Tasmania

There were only four performances of The Audition in Hobart, but this musical was a hit.

Columbian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing, a Queenstown resident, plays her instrument in front of a seven-metre-diameter reproduction of the moon as part of 'Earthshine' at The Unconformity, 2023.
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The Unconformity returns for 2025

Taking place in Queenstown on palawa Country, on lutruwita/Tasmania’s remote West Coast, The Unconformity has announced its October dates for…

A figure cropped off from the right of the photo only showing their hand holding a beaker-like mug.
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The festival that wants to put a scientist in every pub

Beaker Street Festival returns to Hobart from 12-19 August with flagship Roving Scientists Bar, the Beaker Street Debate and more.

An installation at Mona (Museum of Old and New Art) where molten steel drips from the ceiling and create massive sparks. Some visitors look on from a bench.
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Exhibition review: Arcangelo Sassolino: in the end, the beginning, Mona

Contemplations around life and destruction are provoked by the first Australian exhibition by Italian artist Arcangelo Sassolino.

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