Contemporary Art

She's renowned for her photography, but Australian-born, LA-based artist Polly Borland has used inspiration from the pandemic and her famous architect father to create a stunning sculptural exhibition.

The paper drop cloths Robert Moore used to create art could easily have ended up in the bin if not for a painstaking process that has resulted in somewhat wearable and usable items.

Centaurs can represent wisdom and knowledge. Jaq Grantford's portrait of Ed Le Brocq as a centaur tells the story of personal transformation.

A fisherman in Burma, a winery in France, and a wedding party in China are among the winning shots in this year's Food Photography Awards.

An artist whose work captured the beauty of Sydney Harbour is being honoured two years after his death.

Laura Jones has won the 2024 Archibald Prize for her portrait of Tim Winton.

Two years after the artist's death, seventy of his original artworks are set to go on display for the first time at the State Library of New South Wales. Many of his works captured the beauty of Sydney and a nostalgia for the old city he grew up in.

The WikiLeaks founder is the unlikely subject of a finalist in this year’s Archibald Prize. Here's how artist Shaun Gladwell covertly sketched him inside the walls of Belmarsh Prison.

Todd Fuller painted the portraits of 30 Liddell Power Station workers to mark the site's closure. The experience changed his perspective forever.

Victorian street artist Matt Adnate wins the $3,000 Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Baker Boy, as the full list of finalists for the 2024 Archibald Prize is revealed.

Over 23 nights, the festival of "pure joy" will revolve around the theme of humanity, and a universal search for meaning and purpose.

I've just finished several months spending time with some of Australia's most prolific and distinctive creatives, and I reckon we can all use a few of the lessons they've shared, no matter what our lives look like.

The often-divisive artist shares why her work is driven by a fascination for the frontiers of science and its potential — and her fears of what we're doing to the world.

Adelaide's planned Tarrkarri Centre for First Nations Cultures is dealt a further blow, with a request for more federal government funding expected to be knocked back.

Work on the $200 million Tarrkarri building has been on hold since October 2022, following a $50 million cost blowout and state government concerns the design was "sub-standard".

Would you travel to Mildura for a tattoo? Melburnians are going a long way to dodge inflated parlour prices in the city, one regional tattooist says, as cost-of-living bites customers and artists alike.

When Jimmi Buscombe created Gutsy the wombat under a Warrnambool bridge six years ago, he could never have imagined where it would lead him. 

The vibrancy of the Top End wet season is captured in a collection of paintings by a pair of sisters from a remote community near the southern edge of Arnhem Land. 

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The 51-year-old technical employee was hoping to achieve his artistic breakthrough, local media reported citing police sources.

A man won a discrimination decision after being refused to a ladies lounge in a Tasmanian art gallery; it has raised questions about the law — and how men-only clubs can exist.

MONA refusing to allow a man to enter its Ladies Lounge was discriminatory, a tribunal has found. The tribunal's deputy president has also called out the behaviour of a group of women for their "performance art" during the hearing in March.

In 1994, artist Matthew Cook curated the first LGBTQIA+ Blak art exhibition at Boomalli. Thirty years later, the annual Mardi Gras exhibition is still breaking ground. 

Sámi artist Ellen Dahl has won the National Photography Prize from the Murray Art Museum Albury for a series of photographs taken in remote Norway.

A London council says it is discussing future solutions to protect the art for others to enjoy after white paint was splashed over a mural of a tree.