‘Design for Life’ is a collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and Sydney Design Week Creative Director Stephen Todd, which brings 200 objects from the museum’s collection together with medical and scientific product design.
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) completes the two-year lecture series ‘Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1968-1999’ with Lectures 6 & 7.
From 12 to 22 November, Gold Coast audiences are invited to indulge their appetite for contemporary art and culture in the annual BLEACH* Festival presenting 214 unique experiences by 204 artists.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates the art of drawing with the fourth presentation of the ‘Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial’, from 24 October 2020 until 7 February 2021.
The Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA) invites audiences to join them on a filmic journey across the globe and ‘Out of this World’ from 29 October to 8 November.
For emerging art prize ‘the churchie’ at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 13 finalists were invited to consider ‘failure’ as a theme selected by Sydney-based curator Talia Smith.
The ‘Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize’ winners and finalists exhibition is currently on display at the AGNSW until 10 January and includes the ‘Young Archies’, a collection of works created by talented young artists aged 5-18 years old.
‘Contour 556/2020’ brings Canberra’s history into sight with a showcase of work by 60 artists and three artist collectives from Lake Burley Griffin to other outdoor spaces, inner city streets and laneways, galleries and art institutions.
Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria heads the ‘Defining Moments: Lecture 5’ topic Don’t Leave Me this Way: Art in the Age of AIDS 1994, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
The 2020 ‘Liveworks: Festival of Experimental Art’ will pack a powerful and thought-provoking punch with a newly designed program of live performance at Carriageworks and livestreamed digital events online exploring some of the most pressing issues of our times.
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s international art fair is taking more than 450 new artworks by over 380 leading Australian and international artists into the digital realms for a month-long exhibition of art for sale from 1 to 31 October.
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre has been working with First Nations and culturally diverse artists on the development of a two-part exhibition series ‘Terra inFirma’, which draws on personal and shared stories of history, heritage and identity, exploring the consequences of colonisation on First Nations Peoples and communities from the Asia Pacific region, who live in Blacktown.
In celebration of Bell Shakespeare’s 30th anniversary in 2020 a new series of online conversations titled ‘The Bell Debates’ have been announced. Teams of prominent Australians working across a range of industries will go head to head in provocative debate to explore the relevance of a selection of Shakespeare’s quotes.
‘Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes’ showcases dynamic insight to the future of furniture and object design by nine design-based studios who were paired with researchers and practitioners from across a range of alternative industries in Science and Engineering.
We congratulate West Australian Sydney-based Wongutha-Yamatji artist, writer and actor Meyne Wyatt, on winning the 2020 Archibald ‘Packing Room Prize’ for his self-portrait titled Meyne. Wyatt is the first Indigenous artist to ever be awarded a prize in the annual event’s 99-year history, and he is a first-time ‘Archibald Prize’ entrant.
“In my ongoing long-term project Stories from the Room, I wish to stimulate a physical gathering by collecting parallel realities from participants and displaying them at TarraWarra Museum of Art. Through a collective act, a sense of emotional connection is generated, in the form of a community, regardless of distance,” says artist Jasphy Zheng.
‘Desert Mob’ features a major exhibition, symposium and art market. In 2020 the much-loved festivities take a leap into the digital world with new virtual experiences developed in addition to the physical in-gallery presentation of the ‘Desert Mob’ exhibition.
In Kasia Tons photographic compositions a lone figure dressed from head-to-toe in peculiar hand-crafted drapery roams the barren lands of a futuristic dystopian world.
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrates 16th, 17th and 18th century Baroque and Classical music and have recently announced the development of a new digital music platform Brandenburg One.
The inaugural ‘Global Fringe festival, is geared towards delivering an energetic program of live-streamed and on-demand events from local and international Fringe festivals, until September 30.