Visual Arts

Australia’s 'first 3D tapestry' took over 10,000 hours and used 270 kilometres of wool
Locally sourced and crafted, the ‘Welcome to Country’ tapestry will become a Victorian landmark.

So you want my arts job: Festival Director of the Darwin Street Art Festival
Move over Melbourne! According to David Collins, Darwin is where it's at in terms of street art.

Opportunities and awards
Ceramics prize open for entries, Artspace Studio Program artists and Australian Dance Theatre LOFT residents revealed, plus design and fashion…

Exhibition review: Elizabeth Colbert, Objective Abstraction group exhibition, Tacit Gallery
Tacit’s final exhibition is brilliant yet bittersweet.

Thinking about entering an art prize? Just go for it!
The Hornsby Art Prize competition is open now for artists working in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture.

Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics
We report it – you read it. This week: Queensland literary judges resign, David Attenborough at 99, ‘Vandemonian Lags’ reviewed…

Exhibition review: Cézanne to Giacometti, National Gallery of Australia
A highly contextualised, thoughtful, and conversational exhibition which maps out a decades-long conversation of modern ways of seeing.

Photographic installation responding to Australian Queer Archives wins $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize
Perth-born artist Jack Ball takes out the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize with a work exploring queer histories.

Australia’s first National Centre for Environmental Art to open in Gariwerd/Grampians
A new destination in regional Victoria will house the country’s first gallery dedicated to environmental art, launching with a major…

Modernist greats land at National Gallery of Australia in exclusive Cézanne to Giacometti exhibition
National Gallery of Australia partners with Berlin’s Museum Berggruen to present a landmark display of 20th-century European and Australian modernist…