2025 sees the return of Tasmania Makes — Design Tasmania’s flagship annual project celebrating the state’s leading designers and makers. Now in its second year, the program invites audiences to experience all-new work by sixteen Tasmanian practitioners, presented across two exhibitions and developed in partnership with local industry and workshop…

Eastern Riverina Arts is transforming Wagga Wagga’s historic Ambulance Station into a bold new model for regional creativity, with the official launch of The Station Creative Workspace taking place 16–18 May. A landmark cultural and economic initiative, The Station is now home to a vibrant community of artists, entrepreneurs, and…

Craft Victoria has announced two exhibitions as part of Conscious Craft 2025, headlined by eight artists confronting urgent environmental issues – from plastic pollution to resource depletion and textile waste – with groundbreaking creative solutions. The exhibitions Future Ambition and By/Product illustrate the artists’ specialised knowledge and their endless capacity…

Bundanon is set to host Make Good Festival: Ideas for better living, a new event dedicated to celebrating curious minds and practical skills for how to live a good life, running from 17–18 May 2025. Featuring an inspiring line-up of authors, artists, makers and doers, the new festival for Bundanon…

The Potter Museum of Art, the flagship art museum of the University of Melbourne, has announced the full list of artists and details of the six new commissions for its re-opening exhibition, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art. The exhibition will open at the revitalised Museum during Reconciliation…

The Australian Architecture Conference is set to return from 2–3 May 2025, hosted at Sydney’s iconic Opera House and the University of Sydney’s Seymour Centre. Building on the energy of a remarkable 2024 event in Melbourne, the flagship conference will once again bring together the brightest minds in architecture, design,…

An Exploration into Recycled and Biomaterials and the Creation of a Circular Economy. green magazine joined Stylecraft for a series of talks in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne to celebrate the launch of Catifa Carta and green magazine issue 102. Hosted by Tamsin O’Neill, editor of green magazine, with a panel…

Ming Hin Chung has been named winner of The Walls Around Us Student Competition, presented by the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Boyd Circle with support from Brickworks Building Products. A recent graduate of the Melbourne School of Design, Ming Hin will travel to the Biennale Architettura Vernissage in Venice…

Featuring a dazzling showcase of 100 elegant and avant-garde contemporary lights, furniture designed for neurodivergent audiences and leading designers and brands from across the country, Australia’s premier design festival Melbourne Design Week returns from 15 – 25 May 2025 offering a vital platform for creatives to showcase boundary-pushing work and…

The first exhibition in Bundanon’s 2025 program examines our interconnections with the natural world through major new commissions by contemporary artists Robert Andrew, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan and Keg de Souza, presented alongside video works by Sorawit Songsataya and Tina Stefanou, and paintings by Martu Artists of central Western Australia. Running until 8 June 2025, Thinking together: Exchanges with the natural…