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Mosman Art Prize

The Mosman Art Prize is an acquisitive award of $70,000 sponsored by Mosman Council. The it is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947. Entries for the 2024 Mosman Art […]

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Weather Patterns III

Now in its third iteration, Weather Patterns III groups Melbourne based artist Matthew Johnson (also showing a survey of works on the ground floor) with Indigenous artists Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (Western Desert, NT) and Rosella Namok (Far North QLD) in the mezzanine gallery. All three artists work in the realm of nonfigurative abstraction, reflecting imagery and designs that say something about the climate of their surroundings in melodic patterns. Image: Matthew Johnson – Sun in Rain Cloud

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Jasmine Togo-Brisby: It Is Not a Place

A fourth-generation Australian-South Sea Islander, Jasmine Togo-Brisby examines the Pacific slave trade and its impact on those who trace their roots to Australia through its practices. Her great-great-grandparents were forced into the slave trade as children, taken from Vanuatu to work as domestic servants, and later on a plantation. Togo-Brisby conjures with an iconography of tall ships,

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Archie Moore Wins Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion

Archie Moore’s exhibition kith and kin at the Australia Pavilion has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale de Venezia 2024. This is the first time in history an Australian artist has received this accolade. In kith and kin, Moore transforms the Australia Pavilion with an expansive, genealogical chart spanning 65,000 years. kith

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Museum of Brisbane 2024 Program

New mediums, fresh collabs and novel ideas shape inventive views of Brisbane Brisbane is the forever muse for Museum of Brisbane’s 2024 Program. From behind-the-scenes studio tours to interactive AI experiments, the newly launched Museum of Brisbane (MoB) 2024 Program takes art to new places in our always-evolving city where classic artforms meet cutting-edge technology

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Fifty Squared Art Prize

Entries are now open for the 2024 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for 2D artworks measuring 50x50cm or less! Each year the Fifty Squared Art Prize showcases artists at all stages of their career, from emerging to established, practicing throughout Australia and beyond, with an exhibition of hundreds of artworks encompassing

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CREATE EXCHANGE: Ngumpi

Drawing inspiration from weaving practices from Quandamooka Country, CREATE EXCHANGE: Ngumpi celebrates the resilience of tradition through intergenerational expressions of saltwater Country and identity over two venues in Cleveland: Redland Art Gallery, and RPAC Mezzanine (Redland Performing Arts Centre). This collaborative artist-led exhibition featuring Ngugi women Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael showcases new and existing works

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How we remember tomorrow

Artists: Cora-Allan, Brook Garru Andrew, Atong Atem, Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Latent Community, Shivanjani Lal, Napolean Oui, Lisa Reihana, Teho Ropeyarn, Katerina Teaiwa, Jasmine Togo-Brisby. Curators: Isabella Baker, Léuli Eshrāghi, Jocelyn Flynn, Peta Rake. How we remember tomorrow celebrates storytelling across generations, through oceans and waterways and transcending eras

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Jessica Nothdurft: SILLY GIRL

QUT graduate, emerging painter and jeweller Jessica Nothdurft works in a variety of media, including oil, ink, silver, gold, bronze, brass, copper and titanium. Her depictions of life experiences often include people, animals and objects. Her pared back aesthetic suggests narratives beyond the representation. Nothdurft’s art making practice is a visual autobiography, exploring multiple themes,

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Ian Friend: Intimate Immensity

Intimate Immensity is an exhibition of works by Australian artist, Ian Friend. Friend’s works are an exploration of materials, combining layers of ink, gouache, crayon, and pencil. They are both intimate and vast. They also reflect his passion for jazz, classical music, poetry, and architecture. Intimate Immensity will feature works on paper alongside new paintings and sculptures

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Daniel Agdag: The Public Office

Daniel Agdag is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited widely both within Australia and overseas. Using cardboard as his primary medium Daniel Agdag’s practice is situated in the intersection between modelmaking, sculpture and cinematography. He is inspired by the overlooked, concealed mechanisms and systems that enable the industrialised world to function, and often explores

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Taring Padi: Tanah Tumpah Darah

Taring Padi are a leading Indonesian art collective with a mission to understand the cultural and social history of Indonesia through a contemporary lens. Based in Yogyakarta, they use art as a tool to explore issues of sovereignty to overcome environmental destruction, violence, food shortages and unemployment. Taring Padi’s interdisciplinary practice spans art, music, and

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Norton Fredericks: Contaminated

‘Contaminated’ is an exploration between materials and processes responding to sites that are highly contaminated with the environmental toxins: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAFs), otherwise known as ‘Forever Chemicals’. Norton began by collecting water, soil, and plant samples from contaminated sites using the Australian Map of PFAS as a guide across Northern New South Wales

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Pilgrimage: Remote Animism & Ornamental Displacements

Pilgrimage: Remote Animism & Ornamental Displacements forms part of a continuing series from the collaborative practice of husband and wife artists, Miguel Aquilizan & Jessica Dorizac. In their life and work they navigate through culture, colonization, history, geography, folklore and faith as contemporary Australian Filipinos. In the Pilgrimage series, they explore the interconnected themes of identity, globalisation, culture,

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Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award

Eastablised in 2009, the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award is organised by the Art Collection and Galleries Unit at Deakin University, Victoria. The award celebrates contemporary sculptures from artists around Australia, culminating in an exhibition of finalists’ work held in August to October each year at the Deakin University Art Gallery. With a prize

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Land Holds Memory

No landscape is neutral. Land holds stories and memories and bears human and environmental imprints emanating from deep time to the present day. Curated by Nina Shadforth (Senior Curator, Caloundra Regional Gallery), this exhibition presents works by artists Joanne Currie Nalingu, Joe Furlonger, Pat Hoffie, Peter Hudson, Euan Macleod and acclaimed songwriter/musician Kev Carmody, reflecting

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Adrian Charles Smith: WHERE DID THE LAST HOUR GO

WHERE DID THE LAST HOUR GO?  features oversized facial and bodily elements, mirroring the zombie-like trance we fall into during our digital immersions. The exaggerated expressions act as visual metaphors, emphasising the desensitising effect of our digital consumption and highlighting the psychological toll of our constant engagement with algorithm-driven content. This series urges viewers to

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Jean Bennett: TOUCHED

Sunshine Coast textile artist, sculptor, mixed media artist and art therapist Jean Bennett graduated with a degree in fine arts from Goldsmiths, London, and a Doctor of Practice in Arts Psychotherapy from the University of Derby, UK. Bennett invites audiences to engage with her work sensorily, through touch; enticing a sense of wonder and connectedness.

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Dawn Ng: Avalanche

Singaporean artist Dawn Ng deals with time, memory, and the ephemeral. For Avalanche, the artist crafted pigmented blocks of ice, then filmed them slowly melting away. Shot against a blank background, the blocks could be tiny or massive—she offers us no sense of scale. Using time lapse, Ng compressed hours of real time into twenty-five minutes of screen time. But,

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Carlos Barrios: Mas Alegria

Carlos Barrios, born in El Salvador Central America, now lives and works in Queensland. Carlos Barrios grew up exploring remnants of ancient cultures, surrounded by artifacts and art due to his father’s career as an archaeologist. Carlos Barrios began painting figures and creatures from his imagination at the age of six. However, when he was ten,

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Subverting Surface

Artists: Jorge M Brito, Matthew Hurdle, Melissa J Harvey Subverting Surface redefines the relationship between artist, material, and viewer. Within this exhibition, paper transforms into more than a passive backdrop; it becomes the very essence of the artworks themselves. The featured artists harness the inherent qualities of the materiality of paper, allowing it to transcend

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Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

Situated at the Larapinta Valley Town Camp at the base of Mt Gillen in Alice Springs, the Art Room of the Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre has quickly become one of the most dynamic forces in contemporary Australian Indigenous art. Established in 2000 as an intergenerational education and community facility, Yarrenyty Arltere was introduced as a

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Pippa Makgil: Monday Morning

Monday morning is an abstract exploration between painting and sculpture. Objecthood and the expanded spatial quality of abstract painting bounces between the formal and sensual gauge of sight and surface. Material considerations are used to subvert the expectations related to texture, mass & scale. Vida Lahey’s painting Monday morning 1912 resonates with Kabi Kabi/Sunshine Coast based artist Pippa

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Samstag Scholarship and UniSA Jeffrey Smart Commission

Samstag Scholarships enable Australian artists to develop their artistic capacities and skills through a dedicated period of practice-based learning in an international learning institution. The scholarship provides each artist with institutional fees for one academic year of study and a $70,000 tax free allowance and covers travel expenses to a leading international art school of their

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Sunny Art Prize 2024

The Sunny Art Prize is calling for applications from visual artists from all over the world for their 2024 edition. The art competition is open to everyone, regardless of location or preferred medium and theme. The Sunny Art Prize has established itself as one of the UK’s most prestigious international art competitions. The scope of

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