Art News
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Next generation of designers | 2025 Rigg Design Prize exhibition and winner
The Rigg Design Prize highlights the achievements of Australian designers working across ceramics, glass, furniture, woodwork, metalwork, textiles, lighting, and contemporary jewellery.
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Jenny Rodgerson’s self-portrait awarded The Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture
Known for her bold and honest self-portraits, Jenny Rodgerson's winning work exudes a rare blend of vulnerability, courage and defiance.
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Michelle Hiscock wins the 2025 Portia Geach Memorial Award
"It's such an intimate, heartfelt portrait of someone facing the ultimate challenge in life and to know that the panel must have felt that was incredibly affirming." – Michelle Hiscock
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Silke Raetze’s painting, Green Tea with Alex, wins 2025 Hornsby Art Prize
Silke Raetze’s artwork was selected as the winner from a pool of seventy-one finalists, drawn from an incredible 415 artworks submitted from across Australia.
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Bowness Photography Prize 2025 winner and honourable mentions
The 2025 winning work challenges conventions of how the landscape is depicted in photography, foregrounding the ephemeral, abstract and painterly qualities of film and light.
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Sophie Cape wins $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize
Sophie Cape's winning work, created in Southern NSW after the 2024 floods and resulting landslides, "is a portrait of survival and decay, beauty and destruction."
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Now or Never | Exploring art, ideas, sound and technology, 21 to 31 August
With over 140 events, the city-wide festival features more than 285 local and international artists and creatives and includes thirty new commissions making their Melbourne premiere.
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Ballarat International Foto Biennale celebrates its 11th edition | 23 August to 19 October
Filled with events, exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, live podcasts, dancing, and more – inviting everyone to engage with photography in unexpected and inspiring ways.
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Shan Turner-Carroll | The Windmill Trust Scholarship 2025 recipient
Through photography, sculpture, installation and performance, Shan Turner-Carroll explores the interaction between the human and non-human world.
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2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalists announced
Now in its twenty-fourth year, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize continues to highlight the dynamic and diverse creativity that defines contemporary sculpture.
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BLEACH* arts and culture festival | 31 July –10 August 2025
Under the creative direction of artist Michael Zavros, BLEACH* returns to the Gold Coast with over one hundred events.
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STILL: National Still Life Award 2025 finalists announced
This national biennial acquisitive art award recognises excellence, diversity and innovation in contemporary still life practice while broadening the interpretation of the genre.
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