A friend opened up a small studio on a property in Bream Creek to the artist and over the course of 3 years Hawkes created 31 pieces of furniture, for the house in her imagination.

DRIFT is a new art festival on the Mornington Peninsula. On show for 11 days, DRIFT will present performance, music, visual arts, literature and local food and wine across the region in satellite spaces and galleries.

The CREATION project by Deborah Kelly is a new “queer, insurrectionary science fiction, climate change religion.”

With 90 exhibitions and 123 international and local artists the PHOTO 2022 Festival is on view from 29 April until 22 May.

The theme of the triennial highlights how ceremony is at the core of many artistic practices, as well as at the nexus of Country, of culture and of community.

23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus, until 13 June. Explores the ecology of water and our connections to the natural world.

Every gallery space at the Art Gallery of Western Australia will be dedicated to First Nations art for ‘BlakLight’ a special presentation on view until 18 April 2022.

Online and in Canberra this week ‘Difficult Conversations’ explores the role of art and creativity in a polarised society.

Art Month Sydney is on view now across the city, celebrating the significance and vibrancy of Sydney’s art scene until 27 March.

Curated by Anna May Kirk and Tai Mitsuji the showcase asks us to consider ‘what does it mean to do slowness?’

Australian writer Tim Winton called on the gate-keepers of arts funding Australia-wide to not accept support from the fossil fuel industry.

From 24 to 27 March ‘The Melbourne Fair’ will present all kinds of wonderful Antique, Art Deco, Vintage and 20th Century pieces that have stood the test of time.

The Art Gallery of South Australia presents the 31st ‘Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State’ from 4 March to 5 June.

Michelle Hamer asks the audience to be present when, weirdly, time is abstracted and yet the world seems to move at break-neck pace.

Salvatore Zofrea is a celebrated painter and printmaker and this show celebrating his drawing traces the artist’s personal journey from Italy to the Australian landscape.

The Melbourne Art Fair (MAF) is on view across the weekend from 17 to 20 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre with solo presentations as well as exhibits from 53 of the region’s leading galleries.

On the weekend of 4 to 6 March Surface Festival takes to the streets of the nation’s capital with presentations of urban art.

Interdisciplinary artist Vic McEwan explores “the active role that the arts sector can play in reimagining a better world.”

Jacqueline Bradley’s exhibition ‘the tender’ is a poetic and visceral presentation that can be understood as a contemporary ‘still life’.

Culture Vault launches new NFT platform, and the exhibition ‘The Future is Phygital’ at Sydney’s Verona Studio, in March.