The first major exhibition of advertising and communication design in the NGV’s history, The Rigg Design Prize 2022 highlights the creativity underpinning the work of eight leading Australian-based agencies. For the exhibition, each agency will develop a suite of campaign assets – including billboards, street posters and moving image – to celebrate…

Powerhouse has announced Sydney Design Week 2022, a seven-day program of exhibitions, talks, film screenings and workshops presented with the support of Principal Partner Holdmark across the city’s design hubs from 15-22 September 2022. Curated by writer, editor and Creative Director Stephen Todd, the 2022 program Making Now examines the role of design across a range of…

A new exhibition exploring American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s affinities with Australian Central Desert Painting and revealing the musical resonances of his work will open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales next month. Sol LeWitt: Affinities and Resonances, a collaboration between Kaldor Public Art Projects and the Art Gallery of NSW, features…

Since 2014, a team of Robin Boyd Foundation volunteers have catalogued, researched, digitised, and conserved the Walsh Street Archive. The archive is now available to explore on Victorian Collections. The archive makes the culturally significant collection housed in Boyd’s 1958 family home accessible online and offers new insight into Boyd’s…

Recycling, reducing and reusing has become common practice in modern society as we strive for environmental sustainability. Similarly, adaptive reuse of historic buildings – giving a disused or ineffective building a different purpose while retaining its heritage fabric – is increasingly emerging as a sustainable solution for meeting contemporary commercial…

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has released the design for its ninth MPavilion 2022 by Bangkok-based architecture and design practice all(zone) led by internationally-acclaimed architect Rachaporn Choochuey: a striking canopied structure set to bring the Queen Victoria Gardens to life from Thursday 17 November 2022. Experimenting with materials and forms being…

212 finalists from across Australia have been announced by Northern Beaches Council Mayor Michael Regan for the prestigious annual Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize Exhibition which has a prize pool of over $40,000. This year’s exhibition brief was for artists and designers to reflect on our environment and…

Where Lakes Once Had Water, at TarraWarra Museum of Art, will feature a major video work of the same name and three related sound, video and sculptural works from conceptual artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth. The exhibition coincides and resonates with Rhythms of the Earth, featuring selected works from the TarraWarra collection….

Opening Saturday July 23, West Space is presenting ‘Angna Mein,’ a landmark exhibition by Quishile Charan and Zaiba Khan, exploring the intimacy of craft within the Indo-Fijian context, and the ways which stories and histories are passed down within families who make. As members of the Indo-Fijian diaspora living in…

After two years of online programming due to the pandemic, the Open House Melbourne Weekend makes a much-anticipated return to physical form on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July. This year’s program invites audiences to encounter and engage with the city’s most iconic, well-designed and much-loved heritage buildings, places and…