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Archie Moore’s kith and kin has opened at the Venice Biennale. Curated by Ellie Buttrose, the work reflects on the nature and strength of First Nations Australian kinship that spans more than 65,000 years, and incorporates the land, water and all living things. Drawing on Archie's Kamilaroi, Bigambul, British and Scottish heritage, the installation embodies his enduring exploration of history and identity, which...

Donna Marcus, a multidisciplinary artist, discusses her artistic background and her use of kitchenware and cooking pots in her work. In conversation with curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad, she explains how she became fascinated with aluminum objects, particularly lightweight aluminum objects, and the stories and narratives they hold.

Covering her public artworks and how they inform her studio practice. Donna explores the signifi...

When the drive to create takes a turn and propels the artistic compulsion into another direction. This episode features US based actor and now designer Darren Burrows revealing his inspiration, his history, and the balance between performance, life, and the art of design. Discussing the phenomenon of an artist known for one talent, but now channelling that creative ability into a different but equally artistic practice, Tim Stac...

Drawn from a partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and loans from the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and The Body in the Baroque brings together some of the most important European works in Australia for the first time. Also exploring the few women artists of the period, NGV curator Laurie Benson discusses this rare opportunity to see...

"It began as a vague sense of unease, unconnected to anything in particular. Ordinary objects of the built environment began to take on a threatening demeanour, looming over the bright and baking streets."

Created by artists Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline, The Dance of the Remediators at The Lock Up in Newcastle is an archive of a possible future; a materialised dream sequence of people being called into action by coal’s humble livi...

2024 marks 150 years since the birth of Impressionism, the movement that revolutionised art.

During the 1860s, a group of artists, nicknamed “the Batignolles group”, regularly met at the Café Guerbois in Paris. Deviating from the academic style, these artists, which were all refused at the Salon de Paris, decided to create their own exhibition in the spring of 1874 at the studio of their photographer friend, Nadar, on the boulevard...

The Art Gallery of Western Australia and SPACED present Rural Utopias at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) from 25 November 2023. Rural Utopias features new works by 10 artists from across Australia, developed over a series of residencies in rural and remote Western Australia, in dialogue with selected objects from AGWA’s $361 million State Art Collection. In collaboration with their host communities, artists lived ...

We’re invited, by the Australian Museum to transport ourselves back 3,300 years, across the sands of the Sahara Desert to reach the heartbeat of ancient Egypt ruled by the most celebrated pharaoh in the country's storied history. This is the opportunity to experience one of the greatest collections of its kind, in an Australian-first exhibition, Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs.

This all-new multisensory museum experience prov...

Sangeeta Sandrasegar’s art practice is centred on hybridity theories, and explores her life in Australia as an artist of Malaysian, Indian and Australian heritage, and the relationship between migrant communities and homelands.

Her practice, including her highly regarded work with paper cutouts, has engaged with shadows as an ephemeral motif symbolising the movement of cultures and people. Recently too, Sangeeta’s work has involved...

Artist and engineer Majid Rabet came to Australia via Indonesia, and was detained by Australian Immigration, firstly at Christmas Island, and then at Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney.

While there - for two years - to help ease the anxiety of his situation, he put his skills and inspiration to work. Majid noticed discarded material in the refuse area of the Centre which he knew he could re-purpose into usable things.

Majid Rabe...

Artists John Klein and Sally Ryan both separately chose Sydney designer and media presenter Claudia Chan Shaw as their subject for entry into this year's Archibald Art Prize. Hear how the artists differed in their approach to representing Claudia, how they prepared and undertook the sittings, and their impressions of each other's work.

This year, 949 Archibald entries were received, with 57 selected for final judging, currently on ...

Victoria’s TarraWarra Biennial is underway until mid-July, featuring works curated by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi, focusing on the interconnectedness of the peoples of Australia, Asia, and the Great Ocean. The exhibition is titled 'ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili', a Sāmoan proverb which means ‘the canoe obeys the wind’. The proverb is demonstrative of Great Ocean celestial navigation practices, following centuries of European and Asian colonial oc...

Sydney gallery and art consultancy Curatorial+Co. is moving their physical gallery space to a new home in Woolloomooloo. Founder and gallery owner Sophie Vander speaks with Tim Stackpool about discovering the fortuitous new space, the change in image this might mean for the gallery, and about the evolution and challenges of managing a commercial gallery in 2023.

The gallery featur...

Canadian contemporary artist Anthony Ricciardi has made a big impact these past few years, with collections being showcased globally in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Manchester, Montreal, Sao Paolo, and now in Sydney thanks to gallerist Louise Reilly at Audrey Fine Art.

He has curated large-scale artwork and clothing for notable celebrities such as Demi Lovato, Bad Bunny, Post Malone, Shaquille O’Neill and many...

A new and immersive contemporary arts festival is scheduled for the picturesque South Coast town of Berry from June 22 to 25, 2023. OpenField Arts Festival will showcase contemporary art in and around the town in unique non-museum venues, including halls, community spaces and natural reserves.

Festival Co-Director and acclaimed Australian musician Lenka Kripac, a local Shoalhaven resident, speaks with Tim Stackpool about the increa...

Artist Archie Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose team up to present at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Announced by the soon to be re-named Australia Council, the artist becomes only the second solo First Nations artist to represent Australia at the world’s oldest international contemporary art event. In this edition of the podcast, we hear from the artist and the curator about working together, and about the inspiration behind working tog...

The Lighthouse Gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum is transformed into a wonderland of projection and light showcasing the beauty of our oceans for the presentation called Shipwreck Odyssey.

Two large-scale walls are illuminated with spectacular interactive projections to create a large immersive play space. The venue is fitted out with state-of-the-art projection and tracking technology that allows for individual i...

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, Charkha and Kargha at the Powerhouse Museum explores the role that textiles played in India’s movement towards independence from colonial rule.

In addition to their beauty, many of the textiles included in the exhibition incorporate spinning, weaving, dyeing and embroidery techniques, featuring rare items that date back to the foundational collections of the Powerhouse acq...

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has received a generous gift of more than 600 Fred Williams' drawings, cementing the collection's international significance as the most comprehensive research collection of the artist in the world.

The drawings are from the artist's London years, and this new exhibition and for the first time ever, explores the short though incredibly active period between 1952-56 when Fred Williams was livi...