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Person wearing orange pants and black T shirt looking at First Nations work on a black wall - a photo of a man with white hair, a black and white t shirt and white paint around his eyes, and four small photos. ‘On Country: Photography from Australia’, Rencontres d'Arles 2025.
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Australian Indigenous artists making an impact abroad

Australian Indigenous artists are being celebrated by international institutions - who are they?

a tall wooden carving of a simian creature. Offering by Bernard Singleton. CIAF Art Awards 2025
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Winners of CIAF Art Awards announced

In its ninth year, the CIAF Art Awards 2025 responded to the festival's theme 'Pay Attention!'

Photo of people passing books outdoors in the winter to help Hill of Content relocate their bookshop.
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Hill of Content: human chain helps 103-year-old Melbourne bookshop relocate

Around 300 people showed up at Hill of Content today, forming a human chain to help move 17,000 books.

A row of books lined up so you can see their pages. Bakers Lane Books prize.
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Bakers Lane Books launches with $10,000 prize to support emerging women writers

A new kid on the block promises to amply Australian women's voices.

A person with the word poetry on a white t-shirt. They are wearing jeans and holding a book. Poetry Month. Red Room Poetry.
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Poetry Month returns with nationwide coverage

Red Room's annual celebration returns to showcase the breadth of Australian poetry.

art books, a woman reads a book in front of an open fire.
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Curl up with these new art books this winter

15 books that beckon you to stay in … even on a sunny winter’s day.

Three people on stage with a blue fish puppet. Creative Futures Fund
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20 organisations named under Creative Australia’s new funding platform, Creative Futures Fund

$7.8 million delivered; so who received funding under the new Creative Futures Fund?

'Families Collecting Giddie Beads' by Fiona Omeenyo from Australian Gallery, Gimuy/Cairns. CIAF 2025
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CIAF 2025 returns to the Tanks Arts Centre this week

Now in its mid teens, CIAF 2025 is well-established as a celebration of community, culture and creativity.

A pale hand holding a folded newspaper held vertically with the text ‘Where do we go from here?’
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ACCA reveals two years’ worth of programming in ambitious move

Tschabalala Self and Yoko Ono are among the international stars, while emotion-themed exhibitions and new commissions look to the future.

A middle aged woman with short blonde hair and a black shirt. she is smiling. Vale Judith Isherwood.
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Vale Judith Isherwood: a force of nature in the arts

The arts leader died from mesothelioma, maintaining her celebrated sense of humour to the end.

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