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Image: Billy Bain, Dharug people, Dog Walker (Plan B), 2023, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2024 © Billy Bain.
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First Nations ceramics exhibition Of This Earth starts national tour in Cairns

Of This Earth features works by 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to showcase diverse techniques, narratives and innovations.

Installation view, 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, Chau Chak Wing Museum, showing Benjamin Work’s PÁPAAKI at front and Khalil Rabah’s Common Threads at rear.
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Biennale of Sydney review: a world, and an organisation, in decline

This Biennale of Sydney feels less like a single exhibition than a constellation of scattered fragments losing its capacity to…

Michael Cook, Bidjara people, Majority Rule (Tunnel), 2014. Image: © Michael Cook.
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Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific to open at the V&A

Work by Australian artists, including Naomi Hobson and Michael Cook, will feature at the Rising Voices exhibition in May.

Installation view, Iconic Loved Unexpected, Newcastle Art Gallery. Photo: Matt Carbone, Courtesy: the artists.
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Iconic Loved Unexpected review: Newcastle Art Gallery reopens with scale and sparkle

With a celebratory street party attached, the exhibition Iconic Loved Unexpected is a homerun showcase for the recently refurbished Newcastle…

Installation view, Manifest Destiny, Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Gina Fairley.
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Manifest Destiny review: Alex Frayne's photographic roadtrip through a national crisis

Poverty porn, fly-in voyeurism or reality beyond the Netflix filter? Photographer Alex Frayne makes us question America’s decay in real…

Jumaadi, Upside-Down Garden, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Lendlease. Image: Mark Pokorny.
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Upside-Down Garden by Jumaadi turns corporate Sydney on its head

The first large-scale public artwork from Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi flips the city’s built and natural environment upside-down.

Installation view Yield Strength: 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia with Erica Scott’s work. Image: Gina Fairley.
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Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial review: grunge rupture and eloquent overlays

Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial is a bold exhibition that challenges the institution, expectation and materiality in our times.

Artist Khaled Sabsabi (right, a middle-aged man wearing all black) and curator Michael Dagostino (left, a middle-aged man with long gray hair wearing all black) for the 2026 Venice Biennale. They are standing at the corner of a graffitied shopfront.
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Khaled Sabsabi: first details of Venice Biennale presentation

Khaled Sabsabi has revealed his work for the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore spirituality and migration.

Liam Fleming with his Loewe Craft Prize finalist work, Patterns of Pressure, 2025. Photo: Grant Hancock.
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What I learnt as an artist judging an international craft prize

In a major coup, two Australians made the cut in the international Loewe Craft Prize. We speak to one of…

Installation view, Isabella Kennedy: Ballast, Firstdraft, Sydney. Photo: Supplied.
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Ballast review: emerging artist Isabella Kennedy considers submerged histories

Isabella Kennedy's solo exhibition Ballast is a delicate body of work around the sinking of HMAS Sydney II.

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