Heide Museum of Modern Art presents Face Everything, a major 30-year thematic survey by celebrated Australian artist Nell, transforming the award-winning Heide Modern building from 11 October 2025 to 1 March 2026. Taking over the former home of John and Sunday Reed, Nell reimagines the domestic architecture as a vibrant,…

Across one weekend in November, ceramic artists and studios nationwide will open their doors for Australian Ceramics Open Studios 2025. Held on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 November, 10am–4pm, the event features more than 170 ceramicists offering demonstrations, studio tours, kiln firings, hands-on workshops, work for sale and warm conversation….

Incinerator Gallery and Moonee Valley City Council (MVCC), in partnership with Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), will present the final instalment of their visionary think tank talk series: Regenerating and Reconnecting Recreational and Cultural Spaces. Produced in association with the Festival of Urbanism 2025, the event will take place…

Australia’s first Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) Month launches this October, led by Victorian-based resource recovery pioneer Repurpose It as a national campaign to reduce household waste and strengthen Australians’ understanding of recycling and the circular economy. Kicking off from 1 October, the initiative tackles food and garden waste and…

Our Wondrous Planet – Melbourne Museum’s most expansive science and biodiversity gallery to date, spanning 1,800 square metres – is now open. The breathtaking multisensory gallery will showcase four different biomes: reef, rainforest, ice and soil – ecosystems which all play a major role in the vitality of the living,…

The winners of two major Powerhouse design initiatives — the Holdmark Innovation Award and the Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator — have been announced at the launch of Sydney Design Week 2025. Architecture firm Hassell received the $10,000 Holdmark Innovation Award for First Building, while industrial designer Olson Hamilton-Smith was named…

Sydney-based artist Mike Hewson will transform the renowned Nelson Packer Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales into a wildly inventive art park in a new installation, Mike Hewson: The Key’s Under the Mat, opening on 4 October. The first solo art museum presentation by the acclaimed New…

Living Ocean, an Australian environmental non-profit organisation – founded by Northern Beaches surf legend and photographer Robbi Newman – will bring together Australia’s surf, art and philanthropy community for Art for Oceans, its inaugural surfboard auction raising money for marine preservation and whale conservation. The auction will take place online…

KEEP brings together six acclaimed Australian architects to design new furniture pieces that embody permanence. Each piece has been made in Australia from sustainable American red oak, cherry or maple, underlining the importance of good material in the creation of fine furniture. Curated by David Clark, the exhibition aims to…

Bruny Island is set to become a hub of textile creativity this October as bruny NORTH presents the Surface Paradise Workshops — a weekend program led by acclaimed Australian textile artists Lisa Carroll and Georgia Chapman. This immersive workshop series, Surface Paradise Workshops, brings together traditional textile techniques and digital innovation…