Join the UK’s Grand Designs presenter and Australia’s favourite architecture advocate when they reunite for intimate shows in architecturally significant venues After years of friendship and a shared obsession with architecture and design, Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are taking their banter and big ideas on the road – and,…

Abbotsford Convent will present We Are Exploding, a major new exhibition by award-winning artist Emily Parsons-Lord, from 14 to 23 November 2025 in the Magdalen Laundry. Exploring air as both material and metaphor, We Are Exploding will invite audiences to experience the climate crisis through sight, sound and sensation. Across…

Slow Lane – part of the Nightjar Festival Series – invites audiences to slow down and rethink how we live, build and connect. Hosted by Tim Ross (The Australian Dream?), the event brings together Australia’s leading voices in housing, design, sustainability and community. Explore tiny houses, hear from architects and…

A record 34 buildings (33 homes and one commercial office) will welcome guests for scheduled tours during this year’s International Passivhaus Open Days (IPOD) running over 7-9th November.  As the popularity for this global sustainable building standard grows – with applications for Passivhaus Certification in Australia growing by more than…

Heide Museum of Modern Art has announced Song of the Earth, a major exhibition of works by John Nixon (1949–2020), one of Australia’s most influential and experimental abstract artists. On view from 26 November 2025 to 9 March 2026, this extensive survey is the first to span Nixon’s fifty-year career….

The world’s biggest home energy and electric vehicle show, Everything Electric, is heading to Melbourne for the first time, November 14–16, 2025. Fresh from three record-breaking years in Sydney, with each show eclipsing the last in scale and attendance, Everything Electric is set to supercharge Melbourne with a three-day festival…

Kaiela Arts has announced the launch of Kaiela Arts Editions, a landmark collaboration between internationally acclaimed artist Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, Boonwurrung, Wamba Wamba) and Melbourne-based studio Spacecraft. Based on Yorta Yorta Country in Shepparton, Victoria, the Aboriginal art centre will unveil the new works in November at two…

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….