Art News
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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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The Farm Margaret River | 2026 Funded Residency + Award recipients
With a specific focus on site-responsive projects, it provides an immersive space for creative inquiry, fostering connections between the artist(s), environment, and community.
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The Lester Prize | 40 finalists have been selected for its 2025 season
The 2025 season of The Lester Prize – Australia’s richest portraiture prize – offers over $130,000 in prize money to selected winners.
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Cairns Indigenous Art Fair | 10 – 13 July 2025
CIAF celebrates its sixteenth edition, returning to the Tanks Art Centre in Cairn's botanical arts precinct – where the fair began.
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National Indigenous Art Fair | 5 – 6 July 2025
NIAF offers an opportunity to buy artworks directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from remote community-owned art centres.
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