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Aster + Asha Gallery exhibition of Anna Richardson's work. A darkened bright green hallway space showing two frmaed artworks on the wall under spotlights.
Interviews

As gallery costs shoot up, these curators are finding inventive exhibition platforms

ArtsHub speaks to artists and curators expanding exhibition opportunities for independent artists as conventional gallery hire costs go up.

Billy Apple®, The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else, 1985/2009. Installation view, Sydney Contemporary 2026, Carriageworks. Photo: Gina Fairley. Courtesy: the artist, 1301SW and STARKWHITE.
Features

Sydney Contemporary 2026: standout booths, artists in demand and the energy on the ground

Did Sydney Contemporary’s 10th anniversary edition feel different, and what were the standout booths at Australasia’s largest art fair?

Andrew Chapman, A Ford Cortina on fire, South Melbourne, 1979. Gelatin silver print, City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection. Courtesy: Andrew Chapman Photography.
Interviews

Watch Melbourne transform over 55 years of Andrew Chapman's photographs

Andrew Chapman’s remarkable work is celebrated in a beautiful career retrospective at City Gallery in Melbourne.

Affordable Art Fair Melbourne: an aerial view of the art fair venue showing hundreds of art stands.
Features

How can artists make the most of the rise in affordable art fairs?

Australia is one of the Affordable Art Fair's fastest growing markets. While there are opportunities for artists, the big investment…

2026 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards ceremony, Darwin. Photo: Charlie Bliss.
Interviews

The NATSIAAs are breaking down the polarising divide between city and remote artists

The NATSIAAs are more than an art award. They're also an evolving model of what expanded cultural exchange can look…

Performance Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2025. Photo: Wes Nel Photography.
Industry News

Ten editions on, has the Sydney Contemporary art fair kept its big promises?

While sales have ebbed, signs of market maturity and growing engagement are recalibrating how we register success of Australia’s largest…

Detail of indicative artwork by Tim Silver, ahead of his piece for HEAD, Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Photo: Jek Maurer Photography. Courtesy: the artist.
Interviews

At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, art refuses to stay safely on the wall

HEAP is an ephemeral commission engaging eight artists and 120 tonnes of soil for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

Ryan Presley with his winning Telstra Art Award painting, Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed (2026), oil on canvas. Photo: Charlie Bliss.
Features

Ryan Presley lands $100,000 Telstra NATSIAA Art Award with a Renaissance-inspired artwork

What does this year’s Telstra NATSIAA prize list reveal about the future of Indigenous art?

Artist Robert Fielding with his winning work in the 2026 Hadley's Art Prize. Photo: Jessica King.
Features

Hadley’s Art Prize reveals the love of landscape painting in Australia

The $100,000 Hadley's Art Prize shows how landscape painting can be used to think about connection to Country, environmental degradation,…

Installation view Arthur Boyd: Tapestries, National Gallery of Australia: St Francis when young turning aside (1972). Photo: Gina Fairley.
Features

Arthur Boyd’s tapestries show us what trust in a commissioning process looks like

The story behind Arthur Boyd's greatest leap of faith reveals a collaboration that still blazes bright today.

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