Exploring emotional connections with the world
BRIAN ROPE reviews the work of photographer Eva van Gorsel, part of the Emotional Landscapes I exhibition at ANCA Gallery.
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First Nation artist Tony Albert has been appointed artistic director of the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial, After The Rain, to open at the National Gallery of Australia in December 2025.
ROB KENNEDY has mixed feelings in his review of the Darling Portrait Prize exhibition showing at the National Portrait Gallery.
KERRY- ANNE COUSINS reviews Gauguin’s World: Tona Iho, Tona Ao, at the National Gallery until October.
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Albanese comes to Gauguin with an ‘unusual’ speech
"I'm against cancel culture," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday night at the National Gallery of Australia in one of the more unusual gallery speeches in a while, as he unveiled Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao.
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Prize winners in paint and photography
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports on the winners of the Darling Portrait Prize and the 17th National Photographic Portrait Prize.
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Self portrait on washcloth wins art handler’s prize
An unusual self portrait on washcloth has won the 2024 Darling Portrait Prize Art Handlers’ award of $2000 at the National Portrait Gallery, reports HELEN MUSA.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Tanya Myshkin's exhibtion, Wood Engravings and Drypoints, showing at Megalo Print Studios.
Artist Laura Jones has won Australia's most prestigious art award, the Archibald Prize, with a portrait of author Tim Winton.
A portrait of an indigenous musician has taken out the Packing Room Prize as judging for the country's most prestigious art award moves into its final stages.
The prize-winners for the 2024 QPRC and Bendigo Bank Art Awards have been named, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
BRIAN ROPE reviews All My Memories Are Mistranslations, an exhibition by Bornean-Australian artist Omar Musa.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Tree Songs, an exhibition by artist Julian Laffan.
The late paintings of renowned artist Lloyd Rees are on display together for the first time, revealing a burst of creativity inspired by Tasmania's landscapes.
The National Association for the Visual Arts has come out in defence of the artistic freedom of artist Vincent Namatjira after demands by billionaire Gina Rinehart for the withdrawal of his work from an exhibition at the NGA.
A suite of poignant, funny and, sometimes, confronting original artworks have gone on show at Parliament House in the latest Napier Waller Art Prize show, reports HELEN MUSA.
King Charles III unveiled his first completed portrait since the coronation, which captures the monarch with his hands clasped atop the hilt of his sword
Autumn is beloved by Canberra schools as a time for large-scale fundraisers, such as the coming Artshow@Radford, marking the 40th anniversary of Radford College’s dedication in 1984.
"It is a feeling of impermanence, of the sifting boundaries of shelter and safety and our understanding of it that connects the many complex themes in this exhibition," writes visual arts reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
