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Will Lynes: Oily Water
Will Lynes has been working with sheet glass, gold leaf, and enamel paints for over twenty years. His practice draws on intricate decorative techniques, such as cut glass, silver mirroring, and reverse glass painting. In Oily Water, Lynes reimagines these eighteenth and nineteenth century traditions, shifting focus away from material...
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Shapeshifting: Art of Helen Wright
Spanning over four decades of creative inquiry, Shapeshifting explores Helen Wright’s remarkable capacity for enduring transformation. Wright’s work responds to a world marked by ecological unease and existential fragility through motifs such as vessels, birds, and ruinous landscapes. Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, Wright embodies the archetypal shapeshifter...
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Melville Contemporary 2025
Melville Contemporary is a biennial art commissioning program for experimental art. The 2025 Western Australian commissioned artists include: Amy Perejuan-Capone, who honours bees as keystone species; Andrew Varano, who presents new explorations in installation; Bennett Miller reimagining the optimism of the space race through sculptural works; Brighde O’Hara transforming textiles...
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Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize 2025
This biannual prize was borne out of the enduring cultural and social importance of the natural environment in the Fraser Coast region. Home of the Butchulla people, the region’s unique natural features include the world’s largest sand island K’Gari and its surrounding waters, recognised as the world’s first Whale Heritage...
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JamFactory ICON 2025 Aunty Ellen Trevorrow: Weaving Through Time
Weaving Through Time is a celebration of Aunty Ellen Trevorrow’s unwavering dedication to culture, community, and innovation in contemporary Ngarrindjeri weaving over the past forty years. Curated by Carly Tarkari Dodd, the exhibition visually and textually documents Aunty Ellen’s evolution as an artist, from her early traditional baskets and fish...
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Eternal Oblivion: death and the afterlife
Unfolding in four thematic chapters – The Threshold, Heaven, Hell: A Realm of Judgement and Suffering, and The Void: Worlds in Limbo –, audiences are invited to explore the mysteries of death, memory, and what may lie beyond. Inspired by the legacy of Annie May McClelland, the gallery’s benefactor, works...
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2025 Telstra NATSIAA
The seventy-one finalists of the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Awards respond to current affairs, the continuation of cultures, and unerring connections to Country. The works span bark, multimedia, painting, sculpture and works on paper, and are available to all via the virtual gallery, which...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul: A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)
A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage) is a new video installation created for the MCA by Bangkok-born filmmaker and visual artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is known for a mesmeric visual language characterised by long takes and static images. Considering light and its transitory nature, the work was made in collaboration...
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Deborah Paauwe: The wayward girls
With an oeuvre characterised by an evocative use of fabric and textiles, serving as both medium and metaphor, Deborah Paauwe’s latest series is a delicate exploration of the intricate interplay between childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Muted colours and pastel tones create a dreamlike ambience in the compositions, inviting viewers into...
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2025 Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition
Curated by Malcolm Thomson, the Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition sees Melbourne’s Toorak Village on Toorak Road transformed into a public gallery, featuring ninety-seven contemporary sculptural works on display in the shop windows of small businesses and side streets until October 12. Eleven large sculptures purchased by the businesses from previous...
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Best in Show 2025: Australian Photographic Dog Prize
The inaugural Best in Show 2025: Australian Photographic Dog Prize – Australia’s only biennial art prize dedicated to domestic dogs – pays homage to gallery founder David Roche AM (1930–2013) – art collector, canine breeder, exhibitor, and judge. Celebrating the central role dogs continue to play in our lives, from...
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Place Makers
'Place Makers' draws attention to the work of Fiona Foley, Gladys Milroy, Margaret Morgan and Edith Trethowan, whose work is grounded in relationships of place and community.
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