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Make your own resin lazy susan at 2024 Margaret River Region Open Studios. Photo of a person holding a resin circular board resembling ocean waves.
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Everything from resin lazy Susans to clay pinch pots at Margaret River Region Open Studios 2024

Margaret River Region Open Studios allows visitors to see art, buy art, make art and meet over 100 artists.

Six Asian artists stand or sit next to the products of their ceramic practice.
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Blue and white porcelain reimagined by 14 contemporary artists

Expect the unexpected when 14 Asian Australian ceramic artists come together to reinvent the classic blue and white piece of…

Live wedding painter Rebekka Lord-John. Black and white photo of a woman with long straight hair, looking down at the canvas she is painting on. The photo is digitally manipulated to be on top of a purple background, with the words 'so you want my arts job?'
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So you want my arts job: Live Wedding Painter

Do you have the skills to spend five to seven hours painting at a wedding? Live wedding painter Rebekka Lord-Johnson…

L: Frida Kahlo in blue satin blouse, 1939. Photo: Nickolas Muray © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives. R: Cotton blouse embroidered with glass beads; satin skirt with chain stitch and floral motif embroidery; holán (ruffle) and guatemalan waist-sash. Photo: © Museo Frida Kahlo, Casa Azul Collection, Javier Hinojosa, 2017. Portrait of Frida Kahlo and a dress worn by her.
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Frida Kahlo joins the gold rush

‘Frida Kahlo: In her own image’ at Bendigo Art Gallery in 2025 will paint an intimate portrait of the art…

'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions', installation view at ACCA. A darkened exhibition space filled by an installation towards the foreground of the photo. It features terracotta sculptures on wooden plinths made with discarded material.
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Exhibition review: Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions, ACCA

Large-scale works grounded in material investigations shine at the 2024 Macfarlane Commissions, but is it still helpful to put emerging…

'Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses' at Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Photo: Supplied. A darkened room with mannequins displaying vibrant garments with floral patterns.
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Dutch designer’s leap of faith in Australia pays off

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen first visited Australia for skydiving aged 17. Now the creative mastermind has brought a…

Napier Waller Art Prize-winner 2024 Kat Rae, ‘Deathmin’ (detail), 2023, stacked paper, vinyl, plastic, leather, metal. Image: Supplied. Folders of paperwork stacked on top of each other against the wall, with a green army bag placed on top.
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How do artists and cultural institutions shape the conversation on war and conflict?

Kat Rae's powerful Prize-winning work furthers the discussion on how Australia considers conflict through art.

Miles Astray, 'FLAMINGONE', 2024, entered into the 1839 Awards AI category and subsequently disqualified. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. The pink body of a flamingo with this head hidden, standing on a white sandy beach.
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Human artist beats AI, but it's coming back with a vengeance

While a non-AI image has taken out a win at an AI awards program, news of Meta scraping social posts…

Why is a Holden Torana next to a Henry Ottmann? Image: 'Namedropping' installation view at Mona. Photo: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. A car and a painting sit in juxtaposition across two starkly different exhibition spaces.
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Mona's big flex – how David Walsh wrote himself into the books

'Namedropping' is an all-consuming exhibition about questioning status, but by doing so, Mona owner David Walsh has cunningly bolstered his…

Photo: Markus Spiske, Unsplash. A brightly-lit space with artwork displays on walls and visitors walking about.
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Art Money pulls back in economic squeeze

Art Money, the interest-free financing platform for artwork purchases, has made the difficult decision to pause operations due to capital…

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