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Basil Sellers, the man behind the art prize. Photo: Kat Patton.
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The Basil Sellers Art Prize: rethinking what it means to welcome artists

A direct question from one local artist helped reshape the Basil Sellers Art Prize and set a new standard for…

The inaugural UniSQ Biennial Art Award exhibition in 2024. Photo: David Martinelli Photography.
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The new art award making its mark on Australia's contemporary art scene

The UniSQ Biennial Art Award returns for its second iteration in 2026 and entries are now open.

In Absence Mona Yhonnie Scarce: a photo of a large ciccular ashen-coloured wooden tower installed amongst trees on the edge of a river which is Berriedale Bay in Nipaluna/ Hobart.
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Yhonnie Scarce's In Absence now permanently installed at Mona

Visitors to this year's Dark Mofo festival will be among the first to experience the monumental and moving installation in…

Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler: Primary Succession, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, 2026. Images courtesy of Greater Dandenong City Council. Photo: Lucy Foster.
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Primary Succession: Wona Bae & Charlie Lawler exhibition in Dandenong explores life after ecological rupture

Primary Succession offers visitors the chance to reflect on impermanence, memory and adaptation.

Winner of the 2025 Hornsby Art Prize Silke Raetze with her work Green Tea with Alex. Photo: Supplied.
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The Hornsby Art Prize could change your artistic journey

Entries are now open for the 2026 Hornsby Art Prize.

Urban Icon, Wei Yan Minn. Image: courtesy of the artist/ Spirit of Welcome Community Festival.
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Spirit of Welcome Community Festival: meet the artists

We speak with Wei Yan Minn and Setara Shafaie, two of the artists exhibiting at this weekend's Spirit of Welcome…

Pamela Kleemann-Passi. Image: Arun Munoz.
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Meet the Members: Pamela Kleemann-Passi, visual artist

Pamela Kleemann-Passi is a Melbourne-based photographer and visual artist whose work work explores themes of the human body, commodification and…

Jon Goulder, winner of the 2026 Melbourne Design Week Award, with his works on display at Chapter House, presented by Alpha60. Photo: Eugene Hyland.
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In the limelight: latest arts prize winners and career milestones

We all need some good news but luckily there's been plenty to celebrate this past month, with the announcement of…

Damien Frost, Tyler Darke at Berlin Berlin - Egg Club, Kings Cross, London, 2018. Courtesy: the artist.
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Photographer Damien Frost headlines 2026 New Annual festival

There will be some Australian faces in Damien Frost's upcoming exhibition at New Annual in Newcastle.

The Unconformity’s inaugural Ongoing Artists – (L-R) Nancy Mauro-Flude, Stevie Battese and Iris Blazely – are being paid wages to produce ambitious work for The Unconformity 2027 festival. Image: Supplied.
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Wages for artists: 3 artists appointed to shape The Unconformity 2027

The Unconformity's inaugural Ongoing Artists program has appointed three working artists.

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