This weekend the public is welcomed back to The Australian Museum. The space has been closed for more than a year now while a transformative renovation took place.

‘HERE I AM: Art by Great Women’ is a new summer arts festival in Canberra celebrating the remarkable talent of contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous women artists from around Australia.

Hubert Pareroultja has been named the overall winner of the 2020 Bluethumb Art Prize, an award which attracted over 2,500 entries from around Australia.

We congratulate artist Joshua Yeldham for taking out the Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award for his landscape painting Phantom Limb – Smith’s Creek.

Anna Schwartz Gallery emerges from lockdown with the opening of a new exhibition space Gallery 02, and is currently showcasing two exhibitions featuring work by abstract artists John Nixon (1949-2020), and Stephen Bram.

Bendigo Art Gallery presents Piinpi, an exquisite display of contemporary Indigenous Australian textile and fashion design, bringing Indigenous storytelling to the fashion stage. On at Bendigo Art Gallery until 17 January 2021.

‘Women of Steel’ is a documentary film directed by Robynne Murphy telling the remarkable and inspiring story of an Australian landmark victory against mining giant BHP, that won trailblazing work rights for women during the 1980s/90s.

We congratulate Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding as recipient of the $30,000 ‘NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship’ for his work titled Cast in cast out (2020).

The 24th ‘Japanese Film Festival’ (JFF) Australia, presented by The Japan Foundation Sydney, is set to bring the house down with a program of provocative and disruptive award-winning films.

Carriageworks presents the annual ‘SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market’ online with a showcase of ceramics, jewellery, weaving, basketry, photography, carving, textiles, painting, works on paper and more, available to purchase.

After many months of cancelled events and home-bound isolation, DESIGN Canberra offers a smörgåsbord of ways to rediscover the outside world and connect with the local Canberran design community.

As a creative way to document the widespread experiences of these times of crisis, aMBUSH Gallery in partnership with Kambri at the Australian National University presents ‘The Hero’s Journey Art Prize’.

‘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.