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Felicity (Flick) Chafer Smith and Matty Chilly, Indigenous Arts Officers at The Torch. Two portrait photos rendered in black and white on a gradient orange background.
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Indigenous Arts Officer – so you want my arts job?

Two Indigenous Arts Officers at The Torch share how they empower incarcerated mob through art and why they love their…

Tax reform for artists is needed. Image: Dillon Wanner on Unsplash.
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You're killing me: tax reform for artists is needed now

An urgent call for tax reform, as studio artists and creatives miss out on annual wage index but still forced…

Image of woman wearing an apron and holding a paintbrush against blue background. Art prize
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New $30,000 art prize values respect, and the worth of female artists

The Pymble Ladies' College Values Art Prize is tipped to inspire a next generation of women artists.

A piece of artwork that shows rows of trees on a screen at Ritual Eternal.
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Ritual Eternal review: group show exhibition at Project8 Gallery

Melbourne gallery unveils its latest high quality visual essay: Ritual Eternal.

Gallery view of an exhibitio with colour abstract paintings and round table sculptures. Janet Dawson
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Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close review: a well-earned retrospective

The Art Gallery of NSW maps out Janet Dawson’s career highpoints – an inspiration for artists working today

Opportunities, grants & awards. Image: Marty O’Neill on Unsplash.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025

Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.

The artist Loribelle Spirovski (a young woman with brown hair in an up do smiling) with her hand on the shoulder of her sitter, William Barton (a middle-aged Aboriginal man holding a didgeridoo) in front of a large portrait painting of Barton sitting at in a room with a similar position.
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Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025

William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.

Young man with white t-shirt in lecture theatre at educational facility. University cuts
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Shock to bewilderment as ANU strips cultural legacies and denies creative futures

Whose good idea was it to take an axe to ANUs Schools of Art and Design, Music and Museum Studies?

A series of inflatable bubbles celebrating the Tour de France.
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Tour de France inspires a surge of cycling-themed art installations and illustrations

As the Tour de France Femmes powers through its 2025 stages, artists and cities continue to celebrate cycling’s cultural legacy…

Two large illuminated relief works, one orange and one dark blue, displayed on a wall. A figure is observing the orange work. free exhibitions.
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Free exhibitions in South Australia August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in SA this August, including SALA, Mark Valenzuela at ACE, Ramsay Art Prize and more.

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