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A dinner table set on a small theatre stage with six First Nations women plus one host sitting down and having conversations.
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Event review: Table for 6, Yirramboi Festival

Six trailblazing First Nations women shared casual conversations over dinner – they didn't need scripts to deliver a powerful show.

et al., ‘maintenance of social solidarity 2006–24 (detail)’. Installation view: ‘et al.: epochal’, Monash University Museum of Art. A table with a laptop inside a space with metal fencing on both sides, and a projector displaying ambiguous text and landscape.
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Exhibition review: et al.: epochal, MUMA

Truth and power challenged as Aotearoa New Zealand collective et al. disrupts the MUMA galleries.

‘skeletons’ by Judy Watson, installation view at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville. A white-walled gallery with two large columns in the middle. Several works are on display including a sheer red banner on the left and a video projection showing landscape in the centre.
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Exhibition review: skeletons, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

A solo of existing and newly commissioned works by Waanyi artist, Judy Watson, which uncovers colonial ‘skullduggery’.

14th Art from the Heart of the Cross exhibition organised by MSIC, themed 'People Before Politics'. An artwork featuring a panda with a cigarette in its mouth and doing graffiti.
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Exhibition puts 'People Before Politics' as NSW Drug Summit draws near

The show seeks to address the taboo of talking about drug use through artworks that focus on self-expression.

Mandy Martin, ‘Adelaide Railway Station 2 (detail)’, 1973, screenprint, ink on paper, Ann Newmarch Collection. Image: © the Estate of the artist. A vintage coloured photograph showing three woman in farmer wear walking in a field. Two others are leisurely seated at the back.
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If you don’t fight … you lose

The latest exhibition at FUMA spotlights the overlooked contributions of Adelaide’s Progressive Art Movement and the history of student protests.

Jessica Nothdurft, 'The Cage', 2023, bronze, cotton and human hair. Installation view in 'Silly Girl' at artisan. Photo: ArtsHub. A small bronze figure with a blue striped dress, no facial expressions and long hair trapped inside a small bronze square cage.
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Artist hopes to generate awareness and 'release emotions' this Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month

Artist Jessica Nothdurft shares her experiences and emotions in an endeavour to generate greater awareness of domestic violence.

Chair by Andrew Carvolth, who will be showing works as part of Craft Victoria’s Conscious Craft initiative. Photo: Supplied. A aluminium chair constructed out of seperate aluminium bars. It is placed against a green background next to a blue tool rack and lit brightly.
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Conscious Craft takes the charge on sustainability

Craft Victoria will launch Conscious Craft aimed at spotlighting and championing innovative craft practices with sustainability in mind.

Members of the cast from ‘Akaraka’ by Amarachi and produced by Empty Seat Theatre. Photo: Cameron Grant. Two people standing close to each other with their hands on the person seated in front of them, smiling. Two more people are standing at the back and off to the right hand side, their hands are held together looking slightly serious. All members of the cast have dark skin brown skin and black hair, with a red-orange background.
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'It's an Australian play': how a new CALD theatre company is turning the tables on diversity

‘Akaraka’ and Empty Seat Theatre are built by creatives who hope to lead change by example, one show at a…

Textile banners by Tal Fitzpatrick will feature in the exhibition at MoAD. Photo: Supplied. A woman with wavy lavender coloured hair and a fringe sitting with her leg crossed on a stool inside a studio where her textiles works are displayed on the walls.
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Craftivism led by women

The Museum of Australian Democracy launches new touring exhibition celebrating the power of craft and textiles.

Janet Anderson as Rosie in 'Overflow'. Photo: Robert Catto. A woman with a red ponytail smoking and sitting on a toilet. She is wearing a black jacket with skirt, stockings and platform boots.
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A cubicle of one’s own

A one-woman show set in a bathroom and detailing trans experiences that goes from being vulnerable to fiercely unapologetic.

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