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Installation view, The House of Floating Flowers (Ukibana no ie), PUNQ 2026, Japanese House, Ingham. Photo: Luke McLeod. Courtesy: Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.
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House of Floating Flowers brings the outside into a remarkable Queensland home

Presented as part of PUNQ, Mati Hitari's site-specific installation takes over the Japanese House in Ingham in northern Queensland.

Installation view, Rosalie Gascoigne, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2026, featuring Rosalie Gascoigne, Plenty, 1986. Courtesy: Rosalie Gascoigne / Copyright Agency.
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Rosalie Gascoigne’s ageless experimentation shines in sublime retrospective

Three decades since her last retrospective, the National Gallery of Australia gathers the many pieces of Rosalie Gascoigne's career and…

Zane Saunders, Preface, 2026. Performance installation, PUNQ 2026, Old NSW Bank Building, Gurambilbarra/Townsville. Photo: Tszar. Courtesy: the artist.
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Preface takes visual art to the floor at PUNQ in Townsville

Jarrowia, Butchulla and Gunggari artist Zane Saunders is a man of few words, so when he does open his mouth…

Belvoir St Theatre's A Room With a View. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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A Room With a View makes a mischievous splash at Belvoir

Grace Chapple’s adaptation of EM Forster’s 1908 novel plays up the comedy – and the nudity – in an entertaining,…

Koreaboo at Malthouse Theatre. Photo: Gianna Rizzo.
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Adoption dramedy Koreaboo is a bittersweet marvel

Now showing in Melbourne, this semi-autobiographical work, written by and starring Michelle Lim Davidson, draws on the difficult history of…

Lord of the Flies at Theatre Works, Melbourne. Photo: Matthew Chen.
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All sound and fury, this Lord of the Flies stage play signals far too little

Currently showing in Melbourne, Director Steven Mitchell Wright’s cacophonous production of Lord of the Flies loses sight of the novel's…

Ballkids at La Mama Theatre in 2024. Photo: Darren Gill.
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Let's hope Ballkids bounces back onto stages soon – it deserves to be seen far and wide

Tennis is the backdrop of a beautiful friendship in Ballkids, the award-winning two-hander starring Mich McCowage and Izabella Yena.

Dion Mills and William Lonsdale in Luke. Photo: Cameron Grant / Parenthesy.
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Angus Cameron's slippery new play Luke is full of shifts and surprises

A long-buried scandal in a regional college is twisted out of shape in Angus Cameron's button-pushing new play, Luke, at…

Installation view, UNLEASHED+, HOTA Home of the Arts in partnership with Artisan. Photo: J Ruckli.
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'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.

How to Eat Rabbit. Photo: Abdul Yusuf.
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Who gets to survive the apocalypse? How to Eat Rabbit offers something fresh to chew on

It’s the end of the world and no one feels fine in this dystopian drama, playing as part of Melbourne's…

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