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VICTORIA

Having A Nice Time!

The Melbourne pop-up plant and gift shop with a focus on plants and local makers.
Sally Tabart
  8 hours ago

VICTORIA

ACCA’s Explosive New Program Of Reality-Warping Works

The first pieces commissioned by The Macfarlane Fund supporting emerging artists to create career-defining works.
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VICTORIA

An Australian Christmas Story Takes Over Fed Square

Beci Orpin illustrates a distinctly Australian Christmas story in collaboration with creative film producers General Strike.
Sally Tabart

NEW SOUTH WALES

A Zen Group Show In Sydney

Saint Cloche gallery celebrates the feeling of home with CASA, an end-of-year group exhibition.
Sally Tabart

NATIONAL

A Sustainable Collection Of Objects 'For Gardening' By Australian Designers

Sarah K and Bree Claffey react to the scale of mass production that pervades our modern world.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

'Escher x Nendo, Between Two Worlds' Opens

NGV’s major summer exhibition opened yesterday, presenting works from this 20th-century Master in a mind-boggling installation conceiv...
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

The VERY Big Design Market Is On In Melbourne This Weekend!

Cross everything off your Christmas lists at one of Australia’s biggest independent design markets!
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

VOLA's Elegant New Collingwood Showroom

The first Australian outpost for the iconic Danish tapware brand.
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VICTORIA

World-Class Artworks On Display At Point Leo Estate

See inside one of Australia’s most revered sculpture parks for free this weekend!
Sally Tabart

NATIONAL

The City Of Sydney Calls Out For Artist Submissions

An incredible opportunity to have your artwork adorning the streets of Sydney.
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NATIONAL

Frances Cannon Illustrated Cards For CARE Australia

This limited-edition card funds the purchase of school books in the native language of women and girls living in poverty. 
Sally Tabart

NATIONAL

Beci Orpin Teams Up With T2

Have tea with the queen (…of Melbourne design) with this new fairytale-inspired collection.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

The Winning NGV Architecture Commission Is Unveiled!

The winning design from MUIR and OPENWORK is now open to the public!
Sally Tabart

NATIONAL

Bean Bags Are Back, Baby!

Shop the new range of design-focused indoor/outdoor beanbags from Lujo.
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NEW SOUTH WALES

Bec Smith's Cameo Role

A new solo exhibition exploring the beauty in impermanence.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Inside The Minds Of Australia’s Future Innovators At MSDx

The biannual exhibition from the Melbourne School of Design showcases our next generation of original thinkers.
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New South Wales

The Great Barrier Reef + Human Vulnerability Under A New Lens

A powerful exhibition by photographer Tamara Dean, created on a life-changing trip to Heron Island with the Climate Council.
Elle Murrell

VICTORIA

The Ballot For Nightingale Sky House Is Now Open!

You have 11 days left to throw your hat in the ring!
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA.

The Art Of Mid-Century Design

An insight into the life and works of Clement Meadmore, one of Australia’s most influential and successful modernist designers.
Sally Tabart

NEW SOUTH WALES

A Spectacular New Space For The Social Outfit

The fashion label and social enterprise gets a sustainable, designer upgrade!
Sally Tabart

New South Wales

NSW's First Luxury Dome Accommodation

Glamping with a conscience! Introducing a unique get-away experience in drought affected Warialda.
Miriam McGarry

NEW SOUTH WALES

A New Exhibition From The Couple Behind Dinosaur Designs

Celebrating 30 years of partnership from the creative tour de force behind one of Australia’s most loved brands.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Melbourne's Hidden Gem Celebrates 20 Years!

The iconic Melbourne jewellery store e.g.etal celebrates two decades of operation with an exclusive exhibition.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Shop The Very Best Of Melbourne Ceramics!

Melbourne Ceramics Market is back for another highly-anticipated summer event with all your favourite local makers under the one roof!
Sally Tabart

NATIONAL

Fenton & Fenton's Bonanza Charity Art Auction

Shop works from all your favourite artists in this online art auction dedicated to providing educational opportunities for children in need....
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Join the Parade!

Despite Melbourne’s recent apocalyptic weather, no one can rain on Sean Meilak’s Parade!
Miriam McGarry

VICTORIA

A Collaboration Crossing State Lines

Living on opposite sides of the country couldn’t stop artists Katie Eraser and Emma Lipscombe from working together on this joint exhi...
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Learn Screen Printing With Design Icon Linda Jackson

The Australian art legend is teaming up with Home-Work studio for a very special kaleidoscopic class!
Sally Tabart

NATIONAL

The Artist Offering Her Calligraphy Skills To Fundraise For The ASRC

Support a great cause AND impress your loved ones this holiday season for less than the price of a coffee!
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Tamsin Carvan's Incredible Gippsland Home Could Be Yours!

Is this the sign you’ve been waiting for?
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Truth, Beauty, Chaos And Plants (And A Book Launch!)

Join Lucy in conversation with our beloved gardens columnist Georgina Reid as they celebrate the release of Georgina’s brilliant new b...
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

This Revered Australian Artist Shares His Personal Collection Of Ceramics

John Nixon showcases his personal collection of ceramics from the 50s, 60s and 70s that traces a history of modernism in Melbourne.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Same Same, But Different

Artists with polar opposite practices present a joint exhibition, Still  Lucy Roleff and Lucy Everett.
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

Shaving Face At Studio Local

Studio Local hosts a Movember Shavedown event to help raise awareness for men’s health and wellbeing.
Sally Tabart

NEW SOUTH WALES

The Largest Annual Sculpture Exhibition Hits Sydney

Sydney’s coastline is transformed into a sculpture park of contemporary art!
Sally Tabart

VICTORIA

The Wild Interiors Of A 1970s Brothel Captured By Derek Swalwell

Your chance to take a look inside one of Melbourne’s oldest brothels, Pink Palace!
Sally Tabart

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Don’t Miss This Brilliant Opportunity To Buy Contemporary Indigenous Art

The Tarnanthi Art Fair returns this weekend, providing a unique opportunity to view and purchase art directly from Aboriginal and Torres S...
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NATIONAL

Revived Furniture By Four Australian Creatives Up For Auction!

Feast Watson invite some of Australia’s top creatives to restore furniture pieces in their own unique style, for a good cause.
Sally Tabart

This Week

News

A Zen Group Show In Sydney

Saint Cloche gallery celebrates the feeling of home with CASA, an end-of-year group exhibition.
Sally Tabart

Creative People

11 Great Craftspeople Who Can Make You A Table

A round-up of the best bespoke furniture makers and designers in Australia!
Lucy Feagins
  19 hours ago

News

ACCA’s Explosive New Program Of Reality-Warping Works

The first pieces commissioned by The Macfarlane Fund supporting emerging artists to create career-defining works.
Sponsored

Every Painting Tells A Story

Uncovering The Hidden Symbolism In NGA's New Blockbuster: 'Love & Desire'

Our collaboration with National Gallery of Australia, celebrating their incredible new exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces from London...
Lucy Feagins

Art

An Exhibition of Modernist Suburban Homes, Painted In Brilliant Detail

Artist Robyn Sweaney looks back to the modernist homes of the 1960s, in a new exhibition at Arthouse Gallery in Sydney.
Sally Tabart

Regional

Surreal Scenes At Mountaintop Mushrooms

Our regional columnists discover a world of wonder inside an unassuming shed in South-East Queensland.
Karen Locke

Architecture

A Home Designed For Connection

A dual occupancy sub-division results in a surprisingly roomy home for six (!) - the 'Connect Six' House in Brighton, by Whiting Architects....
Lucy Feagins
  8 hours ago

Architecture

A Concrete House In A Coastal Setting

Exploring Australian beachside Brutalism, with 'The Concrete House' by AuHaus in Torquay.
Miriam McGarry

Small Business

Knowing When To Call In The Experts, According To KeepCup

This Melbourne-born business has taken the world by storm, but they haven't gone it alone.
Fiona Killackey

Architecture

A Home That Balances Mid-Century And Modern

Hindley & Co architects bring mid-century design into the 21st century with elegance and restraint, in Newtown, Victoria.
Miriam McGarry

News

Frida Kahlo In Bendigo

An exclusive exhibition drawing on the archives of Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo’s former home, comes to Bendigo Art Gallery.
Elle Murrell

Indigenous Art

A Joyful Exhibition Featuring Some Of Australia's Most Talented Indigenous Artists

A group exhibition and celebration of Australia's first Indigenous owned and operated gallery.
Sally Tabart

News

Having A Nice Time!

The Melbourne pop-up plant and gift shop with a focus on plants and local makers.
Sally Tabart
  8 hours ago

News

An Australian Christmas Story Takes Over Fed Square

Beci Orpin illustrates a distinctly Australian Christmas story in collaboration with creative film producers General Strike.
Sally Tabart

Food

Alice & Marlon's Amazing Wholegrain Mustard

WHO KNEW it was so easy to make your own mustard? SO much better than the store bought variety – think Xmas and summer BBQ crowdpleaser!
Alice Johnson
  11 hours ago
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