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The 2025 Telstra Art Award winner, Gaypalani Waṉambi, 'Burwu, blossom', 2025, at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA. The front of the artwork, showing the intricately etched and painted honey bees and stringybark blossoms are shown; the second part of the photograph shows the found road signs which comprise the canvas for the work.
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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.

Comical ceramic figures depicting Aboriginal people in different uniforms.
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Best free exhibitions in Australia August 2025 – guide

From PICA’s Hatched Graduate show to 20 years of Modern art in Queensland, discover the best free exhibitions in Australia…

colourful mural with picture of Frida Kahlo, Mexico City
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Postcard from Mexico City: Modernist architecture to famed murals and the hottest art galleries.

ArtsHub takes a trip to Mexico City – and its 170 registered museums – discovering that there is much more…

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.

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