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From gum trees to cities to sweeping deserts

How 125 years of the Wynne Prize traces Australia’s shifting relationship to our landscape

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Marikit Santiago

Marikit Santiago’s work reflects the interweaving cultures of her ethnic and social identity, representing simultaneous, conflicting sensations of ...

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Mothertongues

Is it possible to describe the complexity and absurdity of motherhood? Mothertongues creatively responds to the question: what kind of genre and fo...

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Blue & White

A look at Brett Whiteley’s ceramics and the importance of the colour blue in his art

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Hidden women of history: Sonia Revid created public health ballet at the height of ‘dance fever’

With advances in medicine and technology, such as vaccines, we often take the basics for granted.

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Five Sunshine State artists we love

Meet five Queensland-based artists we adore, all in celebration of the summery olfactory bliss that is our bursting with fresh juicy pineapple, go...

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Art of life – The everyday world of Lucy Culliton

Grasses 2021, oil on canvas 137.5 x 137.5cm, Lucy Culliton Lucy Culliton paints the things that she finds beauty in and the things she hop...

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Looking Directly at The Sun – Lloyd Rees

Is it possible for a painter to transform the way we experience the natural world? For us, Lloyd Rees and his painterly perspective has done just t...

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Etching the Trees – Kasia Fabijanska

Cathedral Ranges, graphite, charcoal & pastel on paper, 2018 ‘Alpha Waves – The Rockies,’ etching & aquatint, 29x89cm Gariwerd – no...

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Bookish – The Art of Paper

You know how much we love books, real books that is, the smell and the feel of them, old and new books, ‘piled up in stacks’ books. We also covet ...

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Hidden women of history: Ruby Lindsay, one of Australia’s first female graphic designers

The series ‘Hidden women of history’, looks at under-acknowledged women through the ages and this week we’re shining a light on one of Australia’s ...

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Seeing music, hearing art

If artist William Robinson’s exhibition at HOTA is a love letter to the Gold Coast hinterland, then The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce, the former G...