Sculpture
![Swell Festival. On a beach a large sculpture comprising metal triangles and attached blue cords is in the centre of the frame. Behind is the sea and a rock island. People are milling about looking at the sculpture.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Alejandro-Propato_SAILING-THE-BEACH_Image-Ravel_0Y5A3956_SWELL23.jpg?w=310)
A sculpture festival that’s bursting with pride
The SWELL Sculpture Festival is a place where art and community are inextricably linked.
![Photograph of Australian bush with white birds and artwork in landscape.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/6.-Screenshot-2024-07-08-123211.webp?w=310)
$1.2 million boost for public art recognising women
The Victorian Government has committed funds to public art focused on women in Victoria.
![Black twisted wave like sculpture suspended from ceiling in gallery setting. Lucy Irvine.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lucy-Irvines-sculpture-Made-of-holes-2016.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Materiality...but not as we know it, CMAG
Thought-provoking exhibition looks at materiality and function.
![Gallery with grey walls displaying bright tropical paintings by Gauguin.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Gauguins-World_-Tona-Iho-Tona-Ao-installation-view-print-version.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Australia
Gauguin may have lived abroad, but did he ever really leave Paris? This exhibition explains.
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Exhibition focuses on a next generation of Torres Strait Island artists
Curatorial collaboration celebrates diversity of new making and greater exposure at NorthSite Contemporary Arts.
![Andrew Rogers, ‘Flora Exemplar 2’, 2020, bronze diptych. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Bronze sculpture resembling flowers in a natural setting.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4223-e1718948833677.jpeg?w=310)
Rogers’ $6.1 million gift to university collection
Sculptor and land artist Andrew Rogers has gifted another 31 contemporary works to Deakin University to provide students access to…
![man and woman in gallery exhibiting Egyptian artefacts. Pharaoh.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Pharaoh-at-NGV-81-Sean-Fennessy.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Pharaoh, NGV International
This is an exhibition that demonstrates how we can shift up and still surprise – and how we can show…
![woman in hi-vis vest standing inside sculpture. Lindy Lee](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/LindyLee-Ouroborous-UAP.jpg?w=310)
How do you move a 13-tonne sculpture?
Lindy Lee's enormous $14 million sculpture ‘Ouroboros’ makes its way to Canberra with a police escort across three states.
![Painting of man with long hair and t-shirt in big brushstrokes by Laura Jones.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/1.Laura-Jones-Tim-Winton-detail-Archibald2024.jpg?w=310)
Who are the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman winners?
Another female artist wins this year’s Archibald Prize, with a great portrait by Laura Jones of author Tim Winton.
![Rhodes. Image is a surreal piece of art in a golden frame, a picture of a young woman in a black cloak holding a closed fan in a red gloved hand. Her face is painted blue, yellow and white and there is a perspex or glass box around her head. She is standing in front of a block of flats.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Katrina-Rhodes-Incognito.jpeg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Katrina Rhodes and Stefano Ives, Fortyfivedownstairs
Two virtuosos of Australian surrealist art share a gallery in Melbourne’s CBD with captivating results.