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.

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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.

JULIE RRAP features in A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative Through Art and Life by acclaimed author Drusilla Modjeska

Modjeska's book A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative Through Art and Life explores the lives and art of six groundbreaking European modernist women artists who radically redefined how women are seen - and how they see themselves.

We are especially proud that artist Julie Rrap features in the book, bringing a contemporary perspective to this rich and timely exploration of gender, vision, and creative agency.

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ANNE ZAHALKA Features in Yield Exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery

ANNE ZAHALKA features in the exhibition 'Yield' opening at Moreton Bay Gallery on Sep 20. Inspired by Joseph Bancroft a physician and scientist who migrated from England to Brisbane in 1864 the exhibition interrogates the methods used by colonial scientists, the knowledge they employed and the knowledge ignored to consider how we have arrived at our current environmental state.

📅 20 Sep 2025 - 14 Mar 2026
📍 Caboolture Regional Art Gallery

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IMAGE: ANNE ZAHALKA, Farming for the future, 2024, Solvent ink on rag paper, Edition of 5 + A/P, 1/5, Original sources: Australian Museum Archives and Farmers for Climate Action, 100 x 135 cm.

IMANTS TILLERS - Upcoming International Exhibition

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

IMANTS TILLERS: Fierce Paradise; Conversations with Aboriginal Art

In his most significant international retrospective exhibition since ‘Journey to Nowhere’ IMANTS TILLERS presents ‘Fierce Paradise,’ an exhibition of works spanning five decades, including a number of collaborative works with Warlpiri Elder Michael Nelson Jagamara AM.

Co-curated by Museum director, Hubert Sawatzki and Isidore Tillers, the exhibition highlights Imants Tillers’ ongoing exploration of identity, displacement and locality, as well as his longstanding interest in Australian Aboriginal Art and its possible connections to his own experience as a member of the Latvian Diaspora.

’Fierce Paradise’ will include a selection of paintings by Indigenous artists from the personal collection of the Tillers family including works from Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Sue Elliott and Peter Pijaju Skipper and Sam Tjapanangka. Tillers has also created several new works specifically for the exhibition.

📍 Museum im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Baden Württemberg, Germany
🗓️ 26 October 2025 – 31 May 2026

JACKY REDGATE Features in STRAIGHTCUT: Photographs from the LRG Collection at Latrobe Regional Gallery

Anchored by Jacky Redgate’s STRAIGHTCUT series this exhibition shines a spotlight on the artistry of local photographers alongside some of Australia’s most renowned names in the discipline.

Spanning decades of photographic practice, from as early as 1933, 'STRAIGHTCUT: Photographs from the LRG Collection' invites viewers to explore the diversity and depth of photographic expression, showcasing the talent and technical skill that define the medium.

📅 Exhibition continues until September 21
📍 Latrobe Regional Gallery

ANNE ZAHALKA Selected as Finalist in Olive Cotton Award

Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA for being selected as a finalist in the 2025 Olive Cotton Award!

The Olive Cotton Award is a $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton. In 2025 the Gallery will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the award.

Like a window into another world, we see what the artist sees. 'Portrait of Riste Andrievski, Mt Keira' features a framed photograph by Riste Andrievski, a Macedonian Australian artist living in the Illawarra. With strong European roots, he struggles to connect with the Australian landscape but is slowly beginning to bond with the bushland.

📅 Exhibition continues until 2 November
📍 Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

IMAGE: ANNE ZAHALKA, Portrait of Riste Andrievski, Mt Keira, 2025, Solvent ink on rag paper, 103cm x 84cm.

NIKE SAVVAS Review in Artist Profile

NIKE SAVVAS's latest exhibition 'Walking Home: Road to Trachoni Kythreas' is thoughtfully explored by Roslyn Orlando in the latest issue of Artist Profile - a poignant reflection on the complex layers of history and displacement embedded in the work.

Celebrating 45 Years of Artbank

45 YEARS OF ARTBANK
It was a pleasure to celebrate Artbank’s 45th birthday last week - marking nearly half a century of vital support for the arts in Australia.
We’re proud to have worked with Artbank over the years, with many of our represented artists included in their remarkable collection.

Exhibtion, 'ON DISPLAY' is currently showing at Artbank Melbourne until the 10th of October, 2025

IMAGE: Barry Keldoulis (Artbank), Fran Clark (Director ARC ONE Gallery) and Mary Wenholz (CEO Melbourne Art Fair)