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Architecture render of the Potter Museum of Art at University of Melbourne, Wood Marsh Architects. A heritage brown brick building with a reflective steel entranceway.
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Potter Museum reopens in 2025 with exhibition and resources on 65,000 years of Australian art

After extensive redevelopment, the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art makes a comeback with a glossy new entrance and…

‘skeletons’ by Judy Watson, installation view at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville. A white-walled gallery with two large columns in the middle. Several works are on display including a sheer red banner on the left and a video projection showing landscape in the centre.
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Exhibition review: skeletons, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

A solo of existing and newly commissioned works by Waanyi artist, Judy Watson, which uncovers colonial ‘skullduggery’.

Simone Haag sitting down next to three crudely textured charis by Scotty Bemelen in her Melbourne home. She will curate the end of year exhibition at Craft Victoria.
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Interior stylist Simone Haag's curatorial debut weaves 'Fables & Folklore' with craft

Guest-curating Craft Victoria's end-of-year exhibition, Simone Haag will explore mystical narratives through the lenses of 30 Australian artists.

Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2024 finalist, Sarah Crowest, ‘Hot Potato (several small fires), 2024’. Potatoes with eyes around a fire.
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Opportunities and awards

Grants for experimental practice, plus winners of the Shane and Catherine Brennan Prize, finalists of the churchie emerging art prize,…

A group of performers are dancing in a gallery space. There are images of trees and mountains on screen panels around them.
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Performance and exhibition review: Ground Beneath/Ocean Between, Queen Victoria Museum and Arts Gallery

A dance and video installation of a regional youth dance troupe.

Adam Elliot at work. A grey scale close up of a face with a bald head, closed eyes and huge ears, being drawn with a pen and hand completing the drawing.
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'Where do they all belong?' Adam Elliot on his inspiration and first solo exhibition

How Oscar-winning Australian artist Adam Elliot uses art to highlight neurodiversity and mental health and promote his own mental wellbeing.

14th Art from the Heart of the Cross exhibition organised by MSIC, themed 'People Before Politics'. An artwork featuring a panda with a cigarette in its mouth and doing graffiti.
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Exhibition puts 'People Before Politics' as NSW Drug Summit draws near

The show seeks to address the taboo of talking about drug use through artworks that focus on self-expression.

'Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' installation view at ACCA. A room with gray walled filled with large paintings. In the left corner is an area with a black sofa and small video projected on the wall.
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Exhibition review: Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis, ACCA

The Tennant Creek Brio artistic collective presents a landmark survey with reclaimed mining maps and a wasteland archangel.

Street banners for the annual Banyule Open Studios weekend. Several bright yellow banners with the logo of a large rainbow eye at the centre, laying on the lawn. There is the tag line ‘Step into the Artists’ World’ and the dates ‘Oct 12-13’.
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Artists erased from open studio event to maintain integrity in Council election

Artist and candidate Martin Hirst says the Banyule City Council has overstepped its responsibility in its 'knee-jerk' reaction during the…

The ‘Linear Horizons’ cohort in Gimuy/Cairns, taking part in a First Nations and Filipino printmaking initiative. In the photo is a group of 17 people standing under a large tree outside.
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Sharing stories and culture: Filipino and First Nations printmaking initiative takes off

Hosted by NorthSite in Gimuy/Cairns, ‘Linear Horizons’ aims to foster stronger intercultural connections through printmaking.

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