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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 man standing in front of a giant green hand. Desire Is a Machine.
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Desire Is a Machine review: an exploration of desire and mental health at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art

An exhibition that surveys the nexus between desire and mental health.

a brown enamelled steel tea pot with white writing on the side that says SPILL THE TEA ON THE COLONY. Kerry Klimm, CIAF 2025 Art Fair Showcase
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CIAF 2025 Art Fair Showcase reviewed – the Far North’s celebration of Indigenous culture

This year's Art Fair Showcase underlines the huge breadth of ideas and mediums in current First Nations art practice.

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!'

Pacific Island artist conducting a workshop with group. Watercolour Muster
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Global opportunity for watercolour artists, from Cairns to Italy, Spain and beyond  

The Australian Watercolour Muster is calling for artists to join this growing international community, and expand their practice and networks.

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.

View of gallery installation with abstract colourful paintings, and blue gallery walls. Tom Polo. best exhibitions 2025
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Tom Polo review: in a part of your mind, i am you, Ngununggula Gallery

Tom Polo’s first major institutional solo exhibition is a cracker.

'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.

Stelarc, side on photo of the head and raised forearm of a balding man with long sideburns who has an ear growing out of his arm.
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Emily: I Am Kam and Stelarc Suspending Disbelief reviews: Australian artists on screen

A couple of new documentaries about two prominent Australian artists... who could not be more different.

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