Visual Arts
![Mark Valenzuela, recipient of 2025 Porter Street Commission, in his studio. Photo: Rosina Possingham. A middle-aged man of Filipino descent with a shortly trimmed black beard smiling. He is wearing a brown cap with a green jacket and hands in his pockets. In the background is a studio setting with an array of objects on shelves.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Mark-Valenzuela-Photography-Rosina-Possingham-e1719893500972.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Music Victoria Awards open for nominations, ATYP casting, plus winners of ceramic prize, and more!
![Gallery with grey walls displaying bright tropical paintings by Gauguin.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Gauguins-World_-Tona-Iho-Tona-Ao-installation-view-print-version.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Australia
Gauguin may have lived abroad, but did he ever really leave Paris? This exhibition explains.
![Various ceramic pots of different colours and shapes are sitting on tables.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Logan-clay-1-2-e1719902060145.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Clay on Country: Ceramics from the Central Desert, Logan Art Gallery
An exhibition that reveals a remarkable richness of natural and cultural resources in the Central Desert Region is making an…
![Textile artist Danny Amazonas standing in front of his large-scale quilt work. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. A middle-aged Asian man wearing glasses with yellow lenses and a gray t-shirt stnading in front of a large quilt work depicting a seaturtle surrounded by fish. The piece is vibrant and colourful.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/22791681_1604974169524137_1441557456258882473_o-e1719882791692.jpg?w=310)
Master quilter brings awareness to endangered species
The Taiwanese artist and quilter, Danny Amazonas, will make a stop in Australia at the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair.
![Two people looking at colourful abstract paintings in gallery. Crowley Balson.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Crowley-Balson-NGV-Tom-Ross-27.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson, NGV Australia
NGV Australia walks us through the history of Australian abstraction through the paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson.
![Group of prints in gallery with strong architectural elements. Anni and Josef Albers.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Anni-.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition Review: Anni and Josef Albers, National Gallery of Australia
Described as a ‘Bauhaus powerhouse couple’, this exhibition explores why.
![Image is a blue pencil drawing on paper of three dogs fighting a boar.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/RP-LR-.jpeg?w=310)
How 65,000 years of culture can inform contemporary questions of identity
Every year the Cairns Art Gallery hosts exhibitions of Indigenous artists to coincide with CIAF. In 2024, a diversity of…
![Painting of an eye and the iris is a sky with clouds. Magritte.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/SID96254-Magritte.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition highlights for July – December
Hate the feeling of FOMO? Or thinking of travelling interstate? ArtsHub’s got you covered for exhibitions to visit during the…
![Napier Waller Art Prize-winner 2024 Kat Rae, ‘Deathmin’ (detail), 2023, stacked paper, vinyl, plastic, leather, metal. Image: Supplied. Folders of paperwork stacked on top of each other against the wall, with a green army bag placed on top.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4245-e1719536315648.webp?w=310)
How do artists and cultural institutions shape the conversation on war and conflict?
Kat Rae's powerful Prize-winning work furthers the discussion on how Australia considers conflict through art.
![‘Firelight Labyrinth’ underneath Marvel Stadium, as part of Firelight Festival. Photo: ArtsHub. A dark underground carpark space filled with volumetric displays of LED lights, glowing in light blue.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4246-e1719547203826.jpeg?w=310)
Immersive experience review: Firelight Labyrinth, Marvel Stadium
A visual and audio experience inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus delivers on some fronts, but falls behind competitors.