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Melbourne Art Fair 2022. Photo: Marie-Luise Skibbe. People standing inside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre surrounded by artworks. Seen in the photo are installations that look like weird colourful organisms.
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Melbourne Art Fair gearing up for ‘mammoth edition’

The 2024 Melbourne Art Fair program will feature large-scale installations, site-specific dance, conversations, experimentations and more.

Left: Lavinia Fontana, ‘Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine’, 1574-77 oil on copper. NGV, Felton Bequest, 2021. Image: Supplied. Right: Artemisia Gentileschi, ‘Lucretia’, c.1630-35 oil on canvas. Private collection. Image: Supplied.
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Do you know the first female professional artists in Western history?

Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Aguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi sustained rewarding artistic practices with an entrepreneurial mindset.

University of Southern Queensland Higher Degree Research PhD candidate Lisa Hobbs (left) with School of Creative Arts Associate Professor Beata Batorowicz (right). Photo: Supplied. Two women standing in front of a wall of artworks, smiling at the camera.
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Art in oncology ward aiding patients and paramedics

Artworks with deep links to healing, recovery, health experiences and amplifying unheard voices.

Work by David Lee Pereira, 'Puppy play', 2023 (left) and Thao Tran, 'Serving Opulence', 2022-23 (right). Image: Supplied, courtesy of the artists. On the left is a painting of a cheetah wearing a bdsm mask licking its nose against a pink faded to blue background. On the left is the painting of a woman with long black hair lounging and holding a plate of oysters between her legs.
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'The artist is sacred' – holding space for queer narratives

The annual 'Summer Daze' exhibition returns to Off the Kerb Gallery. ArtsHub speaks to gallery owner and exhibiting artists on…

Salote Tawale, ‘I remember you’, installation view at Carriageworks, 2023. Photo: Zan Wimberley. Installation of a Fijian home in a white-cube gallery space. At the front is a free-standing painting that shows two young children with brown skin and their faces hollowed out.
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Exhibition review: Salote Tawale, Carriageworks

An exhibition that transports viewers and explores how objects become vessels of identity.

'Place des Anges' written and directed by Pierrot Bidon and Stéphane Girard at WOMADelaide festival 2023. Photo: Grant Hancock. A balloon angle floats in the night sky filled with confetti and a standing audience.
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Arts festivals and events calendar 2024

A month-by-month line-up of annual arts festivals and newcomer events across Australia to mark in your 2024 calendar.

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM, 'Not Wasted', 2023. Photo: Supplied. Sculpture of a person's head in relief made from recycled television screen. The face looks peaceful with closed eyes and a side profile. The glass is illuminated from blue and is turquoise in colour.
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Uniting artists with environmental cause

Entries are now open for the 2024 Remagine Art Prize with the theme, ‘Crossroads of Consumption’. Last year’s winner Jennifer…

Rows of colourful handpainted capes. Dennis Golding
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Touring exhibition teaches kids that we can all be superheroes

First Nations artist Dennis Golding offers lessons in finding power and pride, with his exhibition offering a healing space where…

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Exhibition review: Brent Harris, TarraWarra Museum of Art

Brent Harris' ambiguous and surreal forms explore the body, familial relationships and (post) death.

‘John Nixon—Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints’ installation view at Geelong Gallery. Photo: ArtsHub. Exhibition space with white wall and timber floor, filled with prints and works on paper displayed on wooden tables.
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Exhibition review: John Nixon – Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints, Geelong Gallery

An expansive collection of prints by John Nixon reveals his philosophy about blurring the boundaries between art and life.

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