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Image of woman's feet sweeping up gold streamers from celebration. Views on 2025
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The year that was: 9 arts luminaries share their views on 2025

ArtsHub takes the pulse on what the sector thought of 2025. This is what they said.

Di Morrissey. Photo: Pan Macmillian.
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The Endless Sky review: Di Morrissey delivers an endearing outback saga

Prolific Australian author Di Morrissey returns with her 31st novel, cleverly blending adventure, mystery and media-world drama.

Gallery view with woman in black with centre installation using polarising filters. Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson's Presence review: art that physically reboots us

Always wanted to touch a rainbow? Or to see a cloud being born? Olafur Eliasson’s Brisbane exhibition Presence gives you…

Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose at Museum of Brisbane 2025. Image: Red Handed Productions.
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Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose review, Museum of Brisbane

The First Nations’ wearable art exhibition, Magpie Goose, weaves themes of community, culture and Country.

A large white gallery room with fluorescent lighting is filled with stones and rocks, plus a water course - an installation called Riverbed.
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Is Olafur Eliasson's environmental-minded summer exhibition so green? 

A social media post has erupted in critical dialogue over waste in exhibition making, ahead of Olafur Eliasson’s major exhibition…

The University of Queensland’s Master of Writing, Editing and Publishing. Three UQ students from a range of cultural backgrounds sit at an outdoor table discussing their work, with laptops, books and papers beside them.
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How to hone a passion for writing into an industry-ready practice

The University of Queensland’s Master of Writing, Editing and Publishing provides writers of every medium with the skills and connections…

NIDA Open Studios Senior Tutor Louise Birgan. The photograph depicts a fair skinned woman with shoulder length red hair and wearing blue demim overalls over a sleeveless white and blue striped t-shirt. She is sitting on stage at a table, holding a script and is dramatically backlit; rows of theatre seats are visible in the gloom behind her.
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NIDA Open Studios: shaping unique artists through rigorous pre-professional training

Teaching artist Louise Birgan explains how NIDA Open Studio Programs prepare students for professional arts training and practice.

Blonde hair girl looking at paintings in an art fair setting.
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Strong sales see smaller art fairs pushing ahead of larger events

Big is not always better. This year, the Affordable Art Fairs have shown their muscle with a consistent upward trend…

A scene from Queensland Ballet and Experience Gold Coast's 'Elastic Heart' at HOTA, 2025. Seven dancers perform, each identically dressed in red costumes and blonde wigs, recreating Sia's iconic look. Two of the central dancers stamd in the same pose, with arms extended and bent at the elbow: the right forearm and hand pointing up, the left forearm and hand pointing down.
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Elastic Hearts review: pirouettes performed to Sia’s pop music

Sneakers replace pointe shoes in this joyful Sia-inspired dance spectacle from Queensland Ballet.

opera audiences: A theatre stage with four soldiers in shadow standing in pairs in the background. In the foreground are two soldiers, crouching on the ground, each one holding a woman in his arms. The women are wearing white gowns.
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Are opera audiences really in decline? Big picture results reveal all

ArtsHub has collated the data on our major opera companies recent attendance figures and financials to reveal some interesting trends.

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