Register now and be at the ready to immerse yourself in the skill and creativity on show in the inaugural Art Basel ‘Viewing Rooms’ for your chance to add to, or start your art collection or just enjoy the works while showing your support for the visual arts in these uncertain times.
Without a tutu or dance shoe in sight, the Sydney Dance Company brings experimental and expressive dance to the fore.
The coronavirus pandemic will cause a shut down leaving many casual workers in the arts exposed. Chris Endrey argues the government must help.
Dr Wolf Mayer runs guided tours through the tunnels beneath Parliament House to give visitors the chance to see a puzzling piece of Canberra’s ancient history.
“My purpose is to identify the quintessential elements and intrinsic dignity of architectural works and to convey these often, nebulous attributes through the visual power of form. I try to encapsulate this in a single image.”– John Gollings.
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra is taking action to recognise the contributions of female identifying artists from different cultures, places and times, celebrating the insight and understanding their artistic practice affords us.
This International Women’s Day, we congratulate artist Karla Dickens who has been invited to create a new work for the Art Gallery of New South Wales entrance, to be launched in 2021 as the institution celebrates its 150th anniversary.
The Australian National Maritime Museum brings the internationally acclaimed ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ exhibition to Sydney with a showcase of 100 spectacular images of some of the most fascinating creatures that inhabit the natural world.
Breaking Glass marks a new wave for Australian opera, one that resists the classical notions of a male-centric perspective. Sydney Chamber Opera are working in partnership with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s ‘Composing Women Program’ to present new technologies and music by female composers.
Tina Havelock Stevens’ experience as a drummer and documentary filmmaker comes through as she synthesises visual and aural mediums in a way that engulfs viewers.
When Stu Thaung reopened the Mandalay Bus in 2013 he says it got a lot of support from people who wanted to see Canberra recognised as “a cool place to call home”.
On the façade of the new Ritz-Carlton, Perth, Tasmanian-based artist Catherine Woo was invited to engage the grand proportions of Western Australia in a transformative art installation from the nearby Swan River to the falling water of the famous Kimberley Gorges.
Peter Kingston is a well-known Australian artist who from a young age had a natural ability for drawing, and an interest in comics and film.
“The urgent states of our contemporary lives are laden with unresolved past anxieties and hidden layers of the supernatural. NIRIN is about to expose this, demonstrating that artists and creatives have the power to resolve, heal, dismember and imagine futures of transformation for re-setting the world.” – Brook Andrew
For three decades the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) has nurtured strong and meaningful relationships between artists and the local community while fostering support of artistic enquiry and contemporary art practice in the field of photography. To celebrate the institution’s 30-year anniversary the MGA invited Australian artists Peta Clancy, Lee Grant, Ponch Hawkes and David Rosetzky, to create a portrait of the City of Monash.
Liverpool Sculpture Walk features ten artists who engage with aspects of Australian nature, climate change, Aboriginal culture, astronomy, and their relationship to synthetic materials.
‘Monster Theatres’ proposes an arena of speculation, a circus of the unorthodox and the absurd, a shadow play between truth and fiction – Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA).
‘Matisse & Picasso’ at the National Gallery of Australia brings together the works of two of the world’s most celebrated modern artists. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso felt they were each without peer – except for each other.