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Sue Macleod-Beere, Private James Martin, 14 years old (detail)

Finalists announced for the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize

April 7 - Creative Industries, Exhibitions, Visual Arts

Soldiers bathing in Anzac Cove, a powerful portrait of 14-year-old Private James Martin in his ill-fitting Anzac uniform and a woman receiving devastating news via telegram – are just some of the images depicted in...

NGV’s Drop-by Drawing program goes online

April 3 - Creative Industries, Exhibitions, Visual Arts

The National Gallery of Victoria has launched a new four-part virtual series of its popular Drop-by Drawing program. This virtual iteration of the program invites audiences to watch a video tutorial of a Drop-by Drawing ...

Ibrahim Mahama’s No Friend but the Mountains (2020). Installation view at Cockatoo Island - photo by Zan Wimberley

Sydney Biennale review: an incisive global perspective on deeper crise...

March 17 - Exhibitions, Opinion, Visual Arts

Three days into its programmed three months, at the time of writing the 22nd Biennale of Sydney is one of the few major public events in the world not to have been entirely closed down in response to the coronavirus pand...

Vale Edmund Capon AM OBE

March 18 - Latest News, Visual Arts

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has noted with immense sadness, the death of Edmund Capon AM OBE, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales for 33 years from 1978 to 2011. Edmund’s dedicated service to the Galler...

Karnu Nancy Taylor painting in the Martumili studio. Image Martumili Artists

NAVA welcomes digital labelling pilot for authentic Aboriginal and Tor...

June 14 - Creative Industries, Visual Arts

NAVA welcomes the announcement by Minister for Communications and the Arts Mitch Fifield that the Australian Government will support a digital labelling pilot to support clear identification of authentic Aboriginal and T...

Lisa Reihana, in Pursuit of Venus infected AAR

Lisa Reihana’s Emissaries is a vital retelling of colonial histo...

March 29 - Opinion, Visual Arts

When Captain Cook embarked on his voyages across the world in the 18th century he encountered Indigenous peoples throughout the Pacific, including those who lived in the lands that would become the nations of Australia a...

Artist Impression of Ned Kahn's Sun Veil on the Southpoint development in South Bank

One of Australia’s largest public art installations nears completion...

October 16 - Creative Industries, Visual Arts

One of Australia’s largest public art installations is nearing completion. Titled Sun Veil, the $4.35m kinetic screen by internationally acclaimed environmental artist Ned Kahn was commissioned by private Brisbane develo...

Mitch Cairns, Agatha Gothe-Snape (detail). oil on linen, 140.5 x 125 cm © the artist - photo by Mim Stirling, AGNSW

Mitch Cairns wins 2017 Archibald Prize

July 28 - Exhibitions, Latest News, Visual Arts

Sydney artist Mitch Cairns, a four-time Archibald Prize finalist, has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Archibald Prize with a stylised portrait of his artist-partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape. Gothe-Snape is a signific...