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October 2025

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Brown’s Look at that tongue, 2024, is a finalist in David Roche Gallery’s inaugural Best in Show 2025: Australian Photographic Dog Prize. When he turned 21, David Roche AM (1930-2013) received a painting from his father by Edmund Havell Jnr. of Mr R. Hanbury’s favourite foxhound, 1844. The work remains in the David Roche collection which boasts an enormous variety of dog related art across paintings, sculpture, pottery, jewellery and textiles. It is fitting then, that this North Adelaide gallery should celebrate the central role that dogs play in our lives with Best in Show 2025, Australia’s only photographic exhibition devoted to dogs. The popular prize attracted over 250 entries from professional and amateur photographers of all ages, with the finalists on show until 25 October 2025.

Since our last issue the 2025 Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition awards have been announced with Phu La winning the $10,000 ORCHARD PIPER Award with his exquisite ceramic and mixed media piece titled Crossing Borders at Master Roll Vietnam. Curated by Malcolm Thomson, the exhibition has once again turned Melbourne’s Toorak Village into a public gallery featuring 97 contemporary sculptural works on display in shop windows of small businesses and side streets around Toorak Road. The exhibition is on until 12 October.

See below for other features and items in this month’s Art Almanac.

Art Almanac is Australia’s leading monthly guide to “what’s on” in the visual arts: exhibitions, events, workshops, open studios, artist opportunities, art awards and services. Our OCTOBER 2025 issue feature articles, $420K+ in art prizes/funding, 410+ galleries, and 750+ artists, including Julie Brown on our cover.

Contents

Art in Australia

News & Events:
Tarnanthi
Perth Art Weekend
Sculptures in the Garden
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
The Unconformity
Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition
MAKE Award + Craft Week

Featured Exhibitions:
Awakening Histories – Words by Dr Joseph Brennan

What’s on near me:
Enjoy our curated selection of must-see exhibitions across Australia this month

Art & Industry

Artist Opportunities
Awards
Art Auction Houses
Submissions and Proposals
Studio Spaces
Materials
Services
Consultants and Valuers
Member Organisations
Training

What’s On

Gallery Index
Melbourne
Victoria
Sydney
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
South Australia
Western Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Artist Index

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Cover image:
Julie Brown, Look at that tongue, 2024
Courtesy the artist and David Roche Gallery, Adelaide