Visual Arts
!['JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live', installation view at Koorie Heritage Trust. Left to right: 'The Heart', 2016; 'Oxymoron', 2015; 'William Buckley - Maquette', 2016 (mixed media sculpture); 'Still Here', 2015; 'The Empire', 2015 (top); 'Ticket to Projection', 2015 (middle), 'Skip to my Lou', 2015 (bottom). Photo: ArtsHub. Digital illustrations of Melbourne landmarks with red, black and yellow background hang on the walls. In front of them is a small sculpture of a human figure on a bright yellow plinth.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/20240509_102411-e1715233709143.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live, Koorie Heritage Trust
When kinship is involved – it shows.
![Linda Judge. Bayside Painting Prize. Image is a painting of a short grey-haired woman in a black round neck top holding up a loosely woven grey textile in front of her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Web_900x556150dpi1.jpg?w=310)
All in the family: the winning painting touches on matters of mortality and motherhood
Linda Judge has won the 2024 Bayside Painting Prize.
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Counting Gender: The Countess Report’s urgent call for action
The new report highlights the lack of progress made in terms of gender representation in the visual arts.
![Founders of Here Space, Michelle Vine and Perrin Ellis. Photo: Claudia Baxter. Two people sitting on a sofa in the middle of a brightly lit studio space.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/michelle-and-perrin.jpeg?w=310)
Meanjin artists diversifying skills to create facilities independent of government funding
Cyber Bunker and Here Space are the most recent facilities initiated by entrepreneurial artists to build diverse communities in Meanjin/Brisbane.
![Melbourne Art Book Fair returns for its 10th anniversary. Photo: Sean Fennessy. Photo of different art books with a range of bespoke covers.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/sf_sf_ngv-mdw_2023_82_88-1-1-e1715136051801.jpeg?w=310)
Are art books an anomaly in the publishing industry?
As Melbourne Art Book Fair gears for its 10th anniversary, ArtsHub asks how art and design books have survived the…
![Gravity & Other Myths to present WA-exclusive, ‘The Mirror’ as part of RE//PERTH 2024. Photo: Andy Phillipson. Acrobats doing stunts on stage with green light acting like a gateway on stage behind them.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_4140-e1715130205892.jpeg?w=310)
Perth extends the festival spirit to winter months
ARTRAGE’s newest winter offering, RE//PERTH, will launch in July with interactive fashion workshops, performances, food experiences and more.
![Vittoria Di Stefano, 'Pears on a Willow (detail)', 2024. Linden New Art JUNCTURE Art Prize winner. Photo: Supplied. A small bronze object respending a plant seed lying on a flat piece of wool.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/unnamed-37-e1715064817400.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Textile Awards call for entries, funding for live music in NSW, plus winners of new JUNCTURE Art Prize and 2024…
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Exhibition review: Mac Hewitt, Ellen Giannikos, Andrew Anka, Anthony Jackman, Gerard Russo, SOL Gallery
Mythical worlds, dreamlike vignettes, colour-drenched abstractions and twisted Dadaism all feature in SOL Gallery’s latest feast of Melbourne art.Â
![Craft Lab returns to Ballarat Mining Exchange as part of Ballarat Heritage Festival. Photo: Supplied. Three woman gathering near a timbre table displaying round crafts vases. They are in a bustling indoor environment.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_4132-e1714533103988.jpeg?w=310)
UNESCO City of Crafts puts craftsmanship on the dinner table
Ballarat Heritage Festival presents Craft Lab and The Great Takeaway, where local makers will have their pieces spotlighted and taken…
![Woman in blue suit outside Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. To the right of her is a huge patterned arrow on the wall pointing down to the ground.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/221212_SuzanneCotter_06_423_highres.jpg?w=310)
When you need to change to get it right
The MCA has worked with its challenges – and in sync with museum trends globally – to rethink its future.…