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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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Archie Moore: kith and kin
Awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2024, 'kith and kin' traces artist Archie Moore’s Kamilaroi and Bigambul relations over 65,000+ years.
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Lisa Reihana: Voyager
'Voyager' is Ngununggula's inaugural international exhibition, featuring a survey of works by Auckland-based Māori new media artist Lisa Reihana.
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Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Spiders of Paradise
Maria Fernanda Cardoso uses unconventional and organic materials to explore the relationship between nature, culture, and science.
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The Authentic Consequence: Forty years of John Baird
This is the first major survey of John Baird, tracing the artist's beginnings with Roar Studios through to key examples of his recent drawings, collages, paintings and sculptures.
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Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close
'Far Away, So Close' includes drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture, spanning more than six decades of Janet Dawson's practice.
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Creative Acts: Artists and their inspirations
'Creative Acts' explores the passion, practice and process of five Australian artists: Peter Carey, Dr Chandrabhanu OAM, Dr Deanne Gilson, Barry William Hale, and Bundit Puangthong.
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