PAT BRASSINGTON & IMANTS TILLERS feature in A Moment in Time - Collecting Contemporary at Geelong Gallery

PAT BRASSINGTON & IMANTS TILLERS feature in the current exhibition A Moment in Time—Collecting Contemporary at Geelong Gallery.

The show celebrates works acquired over the last decade through the fundraising efforts of Geelong Contemporary, one of the Gallery’s key support groups. Since its establishment in 2016, Geelong Contemporary has focussed on acquiring works by Australian artists working across diverse media, whose works reflect the issues of our times.

The exhibition continues until Sunday 15 Feb 2026.

2025 VCA Artist Opportunity Award goes to Georgia Boseley and Jya-Ruby Nation.

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present the 2025 VCA Artist Opportunity Award to Georgia Boseley and Jya-Ruby Nation.

This award is granted from the VCA Master of Contemporary Art and Bachelor of Fine Art courses to offer Boseley and Nation the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE Gallery in 2026.

This is the fourth year that ARC ONE has partnered with VCA to present this award. We are proud to be supporting these outstanding graduates.

Jya-Ruby Nation is a multidisciplinary artist. Through her cyclical, non-linear and self-referential processes of printmaking and animation, Nation examines and attempts to unsettle extractive colonial notions of place, time, memory, and connection. Within artworks that emerge without finality, loop continually, and are formed through a process of repetition, Nation highlights spaces of transition, fluidity, and ambiguity, where relationships to land and healing can be found. Inspired by her upbringing in rural eastern Victorian, Nation evokes rhythms, sequences, pacing and layers that negotiate a colonised identity and belong to an intertidal place.

Georgia Boseley is an award-winning Central and Eastern Arrernte artist and researcher living in Naarm. Her work documents the complexity and resistance of living as a First Nations person today. Boseley creates contemporary sculptural works using traditional weaving practices, alongside large-scale paintings and ceramic sculptures. Her practice often moves across disciplines and materials, embracing mixed media as a third place, a space of experimentation. Her works are held in private collections across the country and in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.

IMANTS TILLERS features in Memo Magazine

IMANTS TILLERS features in the latest issue of the Memo Magazine in Keith Broadfoot's captivating essay "Crossing the Divide: Von Guérard after Tillers."

Exploring the relationship between Von Guérard's 1863 painting 'North-East View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko' and Tillers 1985 painting 'Mount Analogue', Broadfoot highlights that 'the original and the copy have been placed side by side for the very first time' in the current exhibition 'A Bigger View' at the Home of the Arts (HOTA).

Keith Broadfoot, Memo Magazine, Issue 4, Summer 2025. 'Crossing the Divide: Von Guérard after Tillers', pg 44 - 51.

JULIE RRAP features in the Sydney Morning Herald article

JULIE RRAP features in the Sydney Morning Herald article " What is it like to become friends in your 70s? Very different to when you are in your 20s".

Author Drusilla Modjeska and Julie discuss their journey of being mutual acquaintances for years before finally becoming friends in 2018.

DRUSILLA MODJESKA is one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers. Her books include the award-winning Poppy and the bestselling The Orchard and Stravinsky’s Lunch, which won the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

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JOHN YOUNG's book History Projects features in Art + Australia

JOHN YOUNG features in Art + Australia journal article 'Feeling History: John Young: The History Projects' by Yu Chieh-Li.

Exploring Young's recent publication with the Power Institute The History Projects, Chieh-Li suggests that "By respecting historical archives, Young creates a ‘space of imagination’ and humane engagement with the past."

NIKE SAVVAS acquisition by The Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial recently acquired Australian artist NIKE SAVVAS’ Walking Home: Road to Trachoni Kythreas (2025). The video artwork marks the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus.

In 2024 Savvas travelled to Cyprus and walked from her mother’s ancestral home in the city of Nicosia to her father’s home village in Trachoni Kythreas, a distance of over 90km. Her walk commemorated the thousands of people killed and displaced during the invasion, including members of Savvas’ Greek Cypriot family.

Alongside video of Savvas’ walk, the video includes archival footage of the ‘Women Walk Home’ anti-occupation marches of the 1970s and 1980s where women from all over the world – including Australia – walked across Cyprus to draw attention to the crisis.

Australian peacekeepers served in Cyprus from 1964 to 2021, making it Australia’s longest peacekeeping mission at 57 years.

Major General Cheryl Pearce AM, CSC served as Force Commander, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus from 2019–2021. She was the first Australian to hold this role and the second-ever female force commander in the UN. Reflecting on women and peace, she said, “when you think about [peacekeeping] as helping civil society, supporting protection of civilians, and being part of the community … you need to have women as part of the dialogue and as part of the narrative. You can't achieve that through men alone.”

IMANTS TILLERS features in Good As Gold at the Rockhampton Museum of Art

IMANTS TILLERS' remarkable work, 'Epiphany', is currently showing at the Rockhampton Museum of Art (RMOA) in their current exhibition, 'Good As Gold', curated by Shanna Muston, Jonathan McBurnie, and Tessa McIntosh.

'Epiphany' pays homage to one of Australia’s greatest artists - Ian Fairweather. In TILLERS' words,

"I am attracted to the layering of Fairweather’s enigmatic and spiritual paintings which are neither fully abstract nor figurative. In Epiphany I wanted to capture and perhaps amplify the distinctive and transcendental ‘blue’ colour which frequently appears in his work.”

The RMOA exhibition runs from 8 November 2025 – 1 March 2026.

More information here >

ANNE ZAHALKA features in screening at Salamanca Art Centre

ANNE ZAHALKA's video work features in 'Elemental', an upcoming video art screening in Hobart, at the Salamanca Arts Centre on the 4th Dec. Curated by Sarah Rhodes, it brings together 9 artists - Anne Zahalka, David Stephenson, Izabela Pluta, Troy Ruffels, Ellen Dahl, Dave Carswell, David Noonan, Martyn Jolly, and Sarah Rhodes.

'Elemental' explores our deep connection with the natural world. Each film draws on the elements - rock, air, water and fire - as mediators between person and place. These elements are in a continual dialogue with us, revealing how the environment shapes who we are and how we live within it.

CYRUS TANG Norway Artist Residency

CYRUS TANG has been invited to undertake a two-month residency at Kunstnarhuset Messen in Norway during Winter in 2026. Set within the dramatic fjord landscape, this residency will support the development of Winter Study, a new project focused on observing and documenting the subtle transformations of the winter environment.

This remarkable opportunity offers a unique setting for immersion, reflection, and creative research - an inspiring backdrop for Tang’s ongoing exploration of landscape, memory, and change. Congratulations Cyrus, we all look forward to how seeing Winter Study unfolds.

GUAN WEI and JOHN YOUNG feature in Where Memory Transforms at RACV

GUAN WEI and JOHN YOUNG feature in Where Memory Transforms, now showing in the RACV exhibition space at the Bourke Street City Club Gallery Lounge.

This powerful exhibition brings together artists Kate Beynon, Melissa Nguyen, Lindy Lee, Guan Wei, and John Young, each reflecting on their experiences as Australians with heritage from Hong Kong, Vietnam, or China. They examine the fluid relationship between memory, identity, and belonging. Across painting, watercolour, and installation, each artist navigates the intersections of personal and collective histories, tracing cultural inheritances and moments of transformation.

Where Memory Transforms is now open to RACV members until 22 February 2026, curated by the RACV Art team. To view by appointment please contact art@racv.com.au

DANI MARTI & JACKY REDGATE announced as finalists for Wollongong Art Prize

DANI MARTI & JACKY REDGTE have been announced as a finalist in the Wollongong Art Prize.

Marti’s sculptural work ROSA FEIXUDA – Take 1 Queer Bodies displays his sensuous explorations of materiality and identity, Marti creates works that are at once intimate and monumental - pieces that invite deep emotional connection and command attention in any collection.

Redgate’s Flowers and Frolics #7 is from her series of tableaux photographs that stage playful, hallucinatory scenes using Mylar mirror - a reflective polyester film that warps and distorts reflections.

The art prize exhibition will be on view at the Wollongong Art Gallery from 6 December 2025 to 1 March 2026.

PAT BRASSINGTON features in MECCA store

PAT BRASSINGTON features in the VIP section of the new flagship Bourke Street MECCA store with her work 'Avid' (2004) - a hauntingly beautiful piece that perfectly complements the sophistication and contemporary edge of the MECCA Collection, adding a touch of surreal allure to the space.

ANNE ZAHALKA exhibition for the European Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia

ANNE ZAHALKA's exhibition Fragments of Wildlife is currently on display for the European Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia, presented at the Kunsthalle, Dom Umenia – a striking Brutalist building that provides an unexpected backdrop for contemporary photography.

The European Month of Photography, directed by Vaclav Macek, has been running for 35 years and the exhibition features an array of Zahalka's iconic photo-media works from her series Future Past Present Tense (2024) in a stunning large scale. Fragments of Wildlife is on display until the 30th of November 2025.

GUAN WEI featured in Awakening Histories at MUMA

GUAN WEI features in Awakening Histories at Monash University Museum of Art - an exhibition tracing deep connections between First Nations peoples and Southeast Asian seafarers from Makassar, South Sulawesi.

In these three finely painted porcelain works - Delicacies Jar, Nourishing Jar and Australian Sea Cucumber Plate, 2025 - Guan Wei reflects on cultural exchange, migration and memory. Through cobalt-blue imagery, he connects ancient trade routes linking Marege, Kayu Djawa, Makassar and China, revealing how art, food and knowledge have long travelled across oceans to shape shared histories.

The exhibition will be on display at MUMA, 4 October–6 December 2025 and the exhibition continues at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), 6 February–29 March 2026.

More information here >

JANET LAURENCE Artist Talk about The Burnt Sea at The University of Melbourne

Join JANET LAURENCE for an intimate artist talk, where she will discuss her commitment to a practice grounded in an alchemical language of care and empathy. Laurence’s work falls at the intersection of art, science, imagination, and memory, foregrounding the symbiosis and interconnection of organic elements and systems of nature.

The talk will focus on Laurence’s work Deep Breathing Resuscitation for the Reef, first exhibited in Paris during the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in late 2015. Laurence will also discuss her work with lost corals, and her recent exhibit The Burnt Sea at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung Gallery, Berlin. Her continued focus on the fragility of the natural environment - especially in this time of catastrophe - reveals the ways that loving attention can invigorate generosity and action.

The talk will be introduced by Dr Tessa Laird, and will be followed by a Q&A.

Forum Theatre, Arts West, The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 19th November
6.30pm – 7.30pm

GUAN WEI exhibiting in special project for HOTA's dedicated Children's Gallery

GUAN WEI's painting Sky (1998) is soon to be exhibited as part of a special project for HOTA's dedicated Children's Gallery

The exhibition, Cloudy with a Chance of Art, opens on 8 November 2025 and will run over the summer. HOTA (formerly Gold Coast City Gallery) aims to elevate the experience for families visiting the Children’s Gallery by exposing them to exemplary works of art such as Guan Wei's from the HOTA Collection, as well as loans from public collections from across the country.

Sky featured in Guan Wei's installation, Feng Shui, for the 1998 Asia Pacific Triennal. Feng Shui made a statement about the holistic and intrinsic relationship between human beings and the natural environment. The issues raised in the work were from a number of perspectives: from a historical point of view the piece looked at how humans have explored their living space; from a scientific point of view, how understandings of its existence and structure are reached; from an artistic point of view, how people express their emotional relationships with the environment; and from a practical viewpoint, how people use natural resources, like sand, rocks, water and even life.

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ANNE ZAHALKA & PAT BRASSINGTON featured in publication On Display: The story of Artbank

ANNE ZAHALKA & PAT BRASSINGTON are featured in On Display: The story of Artbank - a landmark publication which chronicles the evolution of Artbank as one of Australia’s most visible and visionary art collections and its role in shaping the national cultural landscape since 1980.

Among the iconic works held in the collection are Anne Zahalka’s The Bather and The Surfers (1989), part of her celebrated series Bondi: Playground of the Pacific. With a critical lens on place, identity and representation, Zahalka reimagines Australian culture through staged portraits set against a painted backdrop of Bondi.

Also, featured in the publication is Pat Brassington's 'Lisp', 1997, which displays a child's face emerges from a watery space as if caught in a dream, speaking to her exploration of digital manipulation and the performativity of the photographic medium.

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JANET LAURENCE featured in Look Magazine by the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Featured in the latest edition of Look Magazine from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, JANET LAURENCE reflects on the artworks that have inspired, influenced, and stayed with her -pieces that have shaped her deep and poetic connection with the natural world.

Known for her immersive installations that blend science, memory, natural history and alchemy, Laurence’s practice brings nature’s fragility into focus. From mosses to minerals, seeds to stones, her work reveals what often goes unseen - urging us to rethink our relationship with the environment and to reimagine a more sustainable future.

In works such as The memory of nature (2010), part of the AGNSW’s collection, she constructs modern-day wunderkammers - cabinets of curiosity - where remnants of nature are preserved, mourned and celebrated. Her practice, like her studio, is filled with organic forms and quiet wonder: transparent boxes, books, and natural artefacts finding new connections through proximity and process.

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JACKY REDGATE & JULIE RRAP feature in Women photographers 1853–2018 at The National Gallery of Australia

JACKY REDGATE and JULIE RRAP will be featured in the National Gallery of Australia's major upcoming exhibition Women photographers 1853–2018, showing from 11 October 2025 to 15 March 2026.

Her striking work Light throw (mirrors) #8 2011 will feature in the exhibition. Redgate’s Light throw (mirrors) series is a landmark exploration of light, reflection, and perception, critically expanding the language of photographic abstraction.

Rrap's powerful Persona and Shadow series will be on display for the exhibition - a powerful nine-part photo-media series which parodies the way women have been portrayed in art history.

Women photographers 1853–2018 is a Know My Name project, the National Gallery initiative celebrating the work of women artists to further understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.

Spanning over 160 years of image-making, this exhibition highlights how women have transformed photography and how photography has empowered women to transform the world around them.

Women photographers 1853–2018 is part of the gallery’s Know My Name initiative, celebrating the vital contributions of women artists to Australia’s cultural history and how photography has been both a tool and a force for transformation.

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GUAN WEI has been awarded the 2025 ACAA Arts and Creativity Award

GUAN WEI has been awarded the 2025 ACAA Arts and Creativity Award, presented by Australia China Alumni Association.

This award recognises Guan Wei’s extraordinary contribution to the arts and his significant international reputation as a contemporary artist whose work crosses cultural borders.

Internationally acclaimed for his distinctive visual language transforming Chinese iconography, Guan Wei’s work spans painting, sculpture, and installation. His internationally renowned work is held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and the Contemporary Art and Culture Centre.