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Jack Ball (A tall figure with short cropped hair smiling, wearing a black tshirt and pants) standing next to their large-scale installation featuring blurry photographs hanging from the ceiling and a purple pile of fabric to their right.
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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.

Two people are watching a large video installation in a gallery. The work shows shapes of glaciers, part of an environmental artwork called 'End & Being' by Jacobus Capone.
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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…

A picture of a wall at the National Gallery of Australia, featuring three modernist artworks. The wall is green. The floor is pine, and the three artworks are small in the frame of the photo. They show abstract works in bold colours.
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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…

A painting that is part of the Griffith University Art Museum's collection. It is a painting of a lithographic studio, complete with work benches and tools. There are four windows that look out onto dry Australian bushland.
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Griffith University Art Museum celebrates 50 years of collecting contemporary Australian art

Landmark exhibition showcases 190 works from Griffith University Art Museum's nationally significant collection.

Familiar Sesame Street characters are peering over a pink fence. The artist David Bromley has positioned the viewer behind the characters. From left to right we see a young boy, Elmo, a young girl and Grover.
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David Bromley brings Sesame Street to life in new Australian exhibition

A new exhibition merges David Bromley’s signature style with Sesame Street’s beloved characters, opening in Melbourne before touring nationally.

Vivid LIVE: The Sydney Opera House lit up at night by a rainbow coloured light projection with the text, 'I want my future to live up to my past' centred within the colourful composition.
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Why the art adorning Sydney Opera House for Vivid this year is like no other in its history

This year’s Vivid LIVE centrepiece casts light on political history, which in some parts of the world feels all-too present…

A large pink, kidney swirl swimming pool painted by artist Lucy O’Doherty for her current exhibition.
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Exhibition review: Lucy O’Doherty: The Drifting Place, China Heights Gallery, Sydney

Lucy O'Doherty's work explores dreamy depictions of interior and exterior spaces.

A group of five people (Venice Biennale 2026 curatorial team) standing on stage at a press conference with a projection of Koyo taking a selfie with a big smile showing between them.
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Venice Biennale 2026 will carry out vision of late curator Koyo Kouoh after her sudden death

Venice Biennale 2026 will not select a new curator, and instead, will honour Koyo Kouoh by realising her theme, ‘In…

Grey and white lino prints against a white wall.
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Exhibition Review: Freyja Fristad: Between Vessel and Void, PARKER Contemporary

Through her relief prints of vessels, emerging Wiradjuri artist Freyja Fristad breaks expectations and conventions.

A First Nations Elder standing confidently outdoors in the red desert with two of her large-scale paintings. The paintings feature large circles, dots, and washes of paint on yellow, gray and black.
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Beyond the Fair: painting a bigger picture with DAAF

How can an art fair help bridge divides? We speak to two leaders at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair to find…

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