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Installation view of 'REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie' at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Paintings and pole-like sculptures with colourful stripes in a white-walled gallery space where two visitors are viewing the artworks.
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Exhibition review: REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

While offering eye candy aplenty, this survey of Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie dives into his practice as an act of…

Visitors standing in gallery with floor to ceiling presentation of bark paintings. NGV
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Stunning salon of bark paintings sets new standard at NGV

Picking up on the immersive trend, the NGV has hung 160 bark paintings to trigger a fresh connection with viewers.

Architecture render of the Potter Museum of Art at University of Melbourne, Wood Marsh Architects. A heritage brown brick building with a reflective steel entranceway.
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Potter Museum reopens in 2025 with exhibition and resources on 65,000 years of Australian art

After extensive redevelopment, the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art makes a comeback with a glossy new entrance and…

Render of ‘HOME’, Australian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Australia’s entry to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale hits the 'No' Referendum vote head on

A First Nations creative team has been selected for the Australian national pavilion in Venice with an 'Indigenous education amphitheatre'.

‘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’.

'Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' installation view at ACCA. A room with gray walled filled with large paintings. In the left corner is an area with a black sofa and small video projected on the wall.
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Exhibition review: Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis, ACCA

The Tennant Creek Brio artistic collective presents a landmark survey with reclaimed mining maps and a wasteland archangel.

The ‘Linear Horizons’ cohort in Gimuy/Cairns, taking part in a First Nations and Filipino printmaking initiative. In the photo is a group of 17 people standing under a large tree outside.
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Sharing stories and culture: Filipino and First Nations printmaking initiative takes off

Hosted by NorthSite in Gimuy/Cairns, ‘Linear Horizons’ aims to foster stronger intercultural connections through printmaking.

Artist Naminapu Maymuru-White at Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala. First Nations art exhibition presented by National Gallery of Victoria to open at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Photo of a senior Aboriginal woman among painted poles.
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US-Australian cultural exchange launched with major First Nations exhibition in Washington

Over 200 works by legendary and contemporary First Nations artists are drawn from the NGV collection to land in Washington…

The 2024 Bankstown Biennale curatorium. (Left) Coby Edgar (A b&w photo in high contrast of a person with a serious expression, with long dark hair).(Centre) Still from ‘Brute Force >> Merge Sort’, Jason Wing, 2019. (A photo of a person with short brown hair and a long beard, with what appears to be two emblems painted on his face. There is a red square hovering over his right side of the face, which has been digitally manipulated into black and white). (Right) Rachael Kiang (A b&w photo of a person smiling with long curly dark hair).
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2024 Bankstown Biennale tackles differences through shared stories

Bankstown Arts Centre's third First Nations-led Biennale centres equitable multiculturalism through the theme 'Same Same/Different'.

In a blue-lit stage, two young men, Nelson Clay and Corey Saylor-Brunskill, are standing on a box-like structure.
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Theatre review: The Box, various Tasmanian venues

A complex story of trying to break out of the "box" of public housing and of identity prejudices.

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