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An artist dress in a costume with cactus-like limbs sticking out of their back surrounded by a circle of onlookers. The room is awash in red light. SOFT CENTRE 2022.
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SOFT CENTRE 2025 to take over Sydney with experimental art and electronic music

Expect international electronic sensations, home-grown immersive art pioneers and critical conversations at SOFT CENTRE.

Columbian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing, a Queenstown resident, plays her instrument in front of a seven-metre-diameter reproduction of the moon as part of 'Earthshine' at The Unconformity, 2023.
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The Unconformity returns for 2025

Taking place in Queenstown on palawa Country, on lutruwita/Tasmania’s remote West Coast, The Unconformity has announced its October dates for…

A woman looks up a dark cliff face, an example of pleasure pilgrimages in Tasmania.
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Pleasure pilgrimages: why artists are seeking ecstasy, not just inspiration

From Tasmania to Alice Springs to Portugal, pleasure pilgrimages are redefining the role of art in healing, community and collective…

At this death café, a small table is by a large window.
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Death cafés: the quiet cultural movement helping artists and communities talk about dying

Death cafés are bringing artists, neighbours and strangers together to discuss life’s only certainty – not through morbidity, but through…

Wesley Enoch, a highly respected cultural leader and First Nations man, smiles at the camera. He is wearing black and a QUT sign is visible behind him.
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Wesley Enoch AM appointed as the Australia Council Board’s new Chair

Enoch, a Quandamooka man, is the first practising artist and first First Nations person to serve as the Board's Chair.

Two people stand behind the glass wall of an external elevator in this photograph, taken at a distance, which also shows the horizontal lines of the building's cladding, and the sharp lines of the building's edge against a cloudy sky. The photo illustrates ArtsHub's On the mov column, a weekly round-up of arts sector appointments across Australia.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of arts sector comings and goings across Australia.

Image is painting of William Shakespeare and a bust of an Ancient Greek man. Arts, Anger and Advocacy
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Arts, advocacy and anger

When it comes to advocating for the arts, passion can be as destructive as it can be constructive. But there…

A lavishly set up photograph featuring a red velvet sofa and a figure dressed in a blond wind, cut out red velvet costume where the limbs extend like bug claws. Australian Life Photography Competition finalist Chrissie Hall, ‘The bargain of a life: a couch with legs and no breasts’. Opportunities.
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Opportunities and awards

Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

art books, a woman reads a book in front of an open fire.
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Curl up with these new art books this winter

15 books that beckon you to stay in … even on a sunny winter’s day.

An abaonded shopping mall in pale concrete.
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New life for dead malls: artists transform abandoned shopping centres into creative hubs

As Australia's retail landscape shifts, artists are reimagining abandoned shopping centres as vibrant spaces for culture, creativity and community renewal.

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