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From 5 to 7 August, the vibrance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture will be celebrated on Larrakia Country during the sixteenth Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. This year, the spectacular showcase of art, fashion, and design by leadi

BLEACH* Festival is the Gold Coast's annual showcase of art, performance, workshops, interactive events, and entertainment staged across the beachside of North Burleigh, Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Miami's industrial pocket, and around the h

Darwin Festival brings a superb program of art, dance, theatre, comedy, performance, music, and food to the Top End from 4 to 21 August. To pluck just a few of the not to be missed events from the festivities; Melbourne-based collaborative performanc

The long-awaited return of the Horizon Festival hits the Sunshine Coast this month in a ten-day multi-arts celebration from 26 August to 4 September. Visual art from painting and photography to projection and sound installation, augmented reality and

Running over two weekends, 13 to 14 and 20 to 21 August, Sydney's Northern Beaches celebrates community and innovation with Creative Open. There will be creative arts hubs and pop-ups at several venues and businesses, from studios and galleries like

Sidney Nolan is noted for his depictions of the history and mythology of bush life in Australia; paintings rich in colour, striking in composition and deliberately awkward in technique. He oft represented Australian stories of loss, failure, and capt

In collaboration with The Institute for Culture Exchange, Germany, ArtScience Museum located at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore present We Are Connected, the first major solo exhibition of leading Australian artist Patricia Piccinini's work in Southeas

Ngununggula 6 August to 9 October 2022 New South Wales Spring Collection offers a rare encounter of two colliding worlds, that of Rosie Deacon and Ken Done, individually known for their bold colour palettes and ability to capture the quintessential A

Hadley's Orient Hotel Until 21 August 2022 Tasmania Thirty-five artworks are on view in the 2022 Hadley's Art Prize finalist exhibition in Tasmania's historically-rich art space at Hadley's Orient Hotel. The $100,000 acquisitive prize is awarded to t

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Until 4 September 2022 Melbourne This exhibition focuses on recent developments in contemporary painting, notably expanded painting practices in which the relations between art and life are intensified. Nadia He

Benalla Art Gallery Until 28 August 2022 Victoria Peter Wegner invites us to look into the face of a century of life experience through the portraits on display in this exhibition, which celebrates an eight-year project through which the artist captu

Tweed Regional Gallery Until 18 September 2022 New South Wales Absorption is an ongoing body of work driven by an innate curiosity in humans. Natalie Popovski uses the mundane to highlight subtle nuances in individuals in “indirect portraits,” painti

JamFactory Adelaide Until 18 September 2022 South Australia Jessica Loughlin creates ethereal kiln-formed glass works that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. Inspired by the vast, fla

Art Atrium 20 August to 3 September 2022 Sydney Jacqueline Balassa's landscapes have a beautiful poetic quality, delicately balanced between observation and imagination. Drawn to the calm beauty and otherworldly quality of Early Italian Renaissance a

Bayside Gallery Until 28 August 2022 Melbourne The Ellen José Art Award for young women celebrates the creativity of young female artists in the early stages of their career and honours the legacy of Indigenous woman Ellen José, 1951–2017, a pioneeri

Glen Eira City Council Gallery 11 to 28 August 2022 Melbourne In 1918 Max Meldrum, incensed at not being re-elected as President of the Victorian Artists Society, resigned and took with him nineteen like-minded artists to form their own exhibiting gr

ANCA Gallery 17 August to 11 September 2022 Australian Capital Territory Working across mixed-media sculpture and ceramics, Kati Gorgenyi, Fran Romano and Melinda Brouwer have created an immersive and reflective experience that engages with notions o

Art Gallery of South Australia Until 3 October 2022 Adelaide This Australian exclusive presents more than twenty intricately produced video portraits that unveil the theatrical language of New York theatre director and artist Robert Wilson. Depicting

Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre Until 27 August 2022 Australian Capital Territory Established craft-based artist Dr Julie Bartholomew and early-career contemporary ceramic artist Mahala Hill highlight the importance of the survival of bees in Beeing

UTS Gallery Until 9 September 2022 Sydney Diana Baker Smith explores the contested histories of Sydney's built environment through the work of sculptor Margel Hinder, 1906–1995. The exhibition presents archival material alongside new work, including

Mona, Museum of Old and New Art Until 17 October 2022 Tasmania Part science-fiction documentary, part psychedelic meltdown; Phase Shifting Index by Berlin-based Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw is a multi-channel video work that depicts humans engaged in

Spinifex Hill Project Space Until 10 September 2022 Western Australia Nyaparu (William) Gardiner, 1943–2018, lived, worked, and raised a family in the remote north-west Kimberley and Pilbara regions. This body of work illustrates the life of Aborigin

McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery Until 9 October 2022 Victoria Fiona Foley: Veiled Paradise is Badtjala artist Fiona Foley's first major survey exhibition, an important amplification of the voices and perspectives of Aboriginal people. Foley's wor

Australian Galleries 2 to 20 August 2022 Melbourne Presenting a comprehensive series of etchings by Daniel Moynihan; intensely personal and powerful narrative imagery. The use of anthropomorphic figures is pervasive in Moynihan's artmaking. This form

Museum of Brisbane Until 23 October 2022 Queensland Artist in residence Anita Holtsclaw applies her unique interpretations of the Brisbane River to three large-scale ethereal embroidered artworks – created using delicate materials and intricate techn

Institute of Modern Art Until 1 October 2022 Queensland Natalya Hughes' The Interior is a playful exaggeration of Freud's consultation room. Sculptural seating, richly patterned soft furnishings, uncanny objects d'art, and a hand-painted mural create

Art Gallery of Western Australia Until 20 November 2022 Perth During their practising years, 1981–1986, Perth-based art collective Media-Space were interested in conceptual and performance art, and emerging computer and telecommunications technologie

Sydney's National Art School (NAS) is the custodian of a rich historical archive brimming with thousands of student artworks across a variety of media, objects, photographs, and documentation related to both the current art school and former gaol sit

For almost 50 years Art Almanac has served and been shaped by people who engage with art every day. Our practice supports the sustainability of our arts community in all its forms. We have experience as artists, in critical writing, working in galler

This month, we congratulate Brisbane-based artist Elizabeth Willing as the first recipient of the recently established Judy Wheeler Commission. The new ten-year initiative is supported by a generous gift from the Simpson family with the view to fund

Applications are open to emerging Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles for this major $50,000 award. Shortlisted works will be on view at Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield VIC 3162, from Nov 25

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