Visual Arts

Free exhibitions in Queensland August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in Queensland this August, including contemporary photography and landscape paintings.

Free exhibitions in Australian Capital Territory August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in the Australian Capital Territory this August at Craft + Design Canberra, Drill Hall and…

Free exhibitions in Northern Territory August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in NT this August, including Jenna Mayilema Lee's major solo and a collaboration with the…

Free exhibitions in Western Australia August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in Western Australia, including the 'Hatched: National Graduate Show' and 125 years of art and…

‘I’m tired of barely being paid.’ Artists are living below the poverty line
Did artists feel the recent indexed wage increase? No. They largely remain on the poverty line. And this week’s speculated…

A gallerist's view – how artificial intelligence will roll out in the visual arts
In the artificial intelligence rollout, the carrot will be that you still have a job. The stick will be needing…

Arts Law not shy in criticism of Productivity Commission report on AI
Favoring a lack of AI regulation over economic output, the Productivity Commission’s recommendations puts artists at risk.

Creative Australia backs new creative health initiative
A new two-year creative health initiative from Creative Australia targets wellness and loneliness.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 11-17 August 2025
New award opportunities, commission for Queensland playwrights and grants up to $80,000.

Gaypalani Waṉambi wins the Telstra Art Award at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA
The Yirrkala artist won the $100,000 award for a monumental etched metal work, now showing at MAGNT in Darwin.