Richard Lewer has won the Archibald Prize 2026, with a portrait of Pitjantjatjara Elder, artist and healer Iluwanti Ken. Alongside, Yolngu artist Gaypalani Waṉambi wins the $50,000 Wynne Prize for The Waṉambi tree and Lucy Culliton wins the $40,000 Sulman Prize for Toolah, artist model.
In Claire Lambe’s solo show at Warrnambool Art Gallery, Part Interior, Part Object, Part Feeling, she straddles where home, studio, institution and history meet.
A survey exhibition at Newcastle Art Gallery encapsulates the spectrum of influences of Waiben-born (Thursday Island) artist Brian Robinson, from ancient cosmologies to religious iconography, from ethnographic collections to science fiction.
Hayley Millar Baker’s new exhibition, which brings together a decade of work across various mediums, is an ode to the resilience of Aboriginal women and the enduring power of matrilineal experience.
On the occasion of an exhibition bringing together the work of Rosalie Gascoigne with that of three contemporary First Nations women artists, Timmah Ball considers Gascoigne’s relationship with land and place.
Handmade musical instruments from the past and present speak to each other across the decades, in the first Australian solo exhibition of New Zealand-born, London-based artist Sriwhana Spong.
The National Gallery of Australia’s Ngura Pulka—Epic Country, presents large scale paintings with collaborative canvases invoking Country to celebrate Tjukurpa (Aṉangu law/cultural stories).
The relationship between art and care is the subject of growing cultural conversation, its faultlines revealed by increasing economic and cultural instability. But, as Sarah Ayoub writes, could expanding our understanding of caregiving beyond a narrow lens help us better support artists to make their work?
Through a multitude of relationships with the ice continent, RMIT Gallery and Design Hub Gallery’s group show, Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South explores Australian art created in Antarctica.
Sabsabi unveils conference of one’s self in the Australia Pavilion, alongside khalil in the International Exhibition In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh at the Arsenale.
Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.
With his solo show Stone Soup taking place at Buxton Contemporary, we step inside Hany Armanious’ studio, where he “recalibrates perceptions” through sculpture.
Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human.
