Events

Craft Marks the 30th Anniversary of Fresh! Awards

16 Mar, 2023

Keeping it fresh since 1993: Craft marks the 30th  anniversary of the career-making awards and exhibition –  showcasing the next wave of talent in contemporary craft  and design.   An annual fixture on the Craft calendar, Fresh! showcases the energy, skill  and innovation of some of the best graduating students from…

Alpha60 X Brendan Huntley Present ‘Sense of Direction’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art

28 Feb, 2023

A collaborative exhibition between artist Brendan Huntley and fashion label Alpha60, Sense of Direction, will launch this March at Heide Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is an installation of paintings, sculptures, monotypes, rugs, clocks and jewellery, which together explore the transience of personal transformation.  The show will be presented in the award-winning Heide Modern from 11…

Melbourne Design Fair 2023: More Than 150 Designers and 60+ Exhibitors Take Over Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

24 Feb, 2023

Curated by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and delivered in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne Design Fair is Australia’s largest presentation of contemporary and twentieth century collectible design by leading Australian and international practitioners. Tickets are now on sale for the four-day event taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre…

Adrián Villar Rojas: The End of Imagination—Showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

31 Jan, 2023

For The End of Imagination, the inaugural exhibition in the Tank, Argentine-Peruvian artist Adrián Villar Rojas creates collaboratively produced, ever-evolving, site-specific environmental projects that are both imposing and fragile, often leaving scarce traces of their passage through the world due to their perishable and parasitic nature. His world-building explores the…

The Fox: NGV Contemporary Design Competition Exhibition

7 Jan, 2023

In celebration of leading Australian architecture and design, a new exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square will display all eight designs entered into The Fox: NGV Contemporary Design Competition, including the winning design by Angelo Candalepas and Associates. Featuring architectural drawings, renders, material prototypes, video presentations…

NGV Presents the Inaugural Indigenous Fashion Commission

20 Dec, 2022

In a brand-new initiative, the NGV will present the inaugural Indigenous Fashion Commission, celebrating extraordinary fashion and design in Australia by commissioning a designer to produce an ambitious new work for the NGV Collection. Debuting at the NGV Gala in December 2022, the Commission celebrates the innovation, diversity and creativity…

Summer Blockbuster ‘Air’ Opens at GOMA

3 Dec, 2022

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) is opening its summer blockbuster exhibition ‘Air’ with a program of artist talks, discussions, pop-up performances, drop-in workshops and film screenings. Across five themed chapters, ‘Air’ explores the cultural, ecological and political dimensions of this elemental substance with major works by…