Treading Lightly, a major fashion and textiles exhibition, opens at the Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT) this March, showcasing more than 38 garments, textile works and beautifully crafted accessories by seven First Peoples artists and designers based in Victoria. The exhibition marks the fifth iteration of KHT’s ground-breaking Blak Design program….

Stockroom Kyneton’s next exhibition Plant Life – curated by Rhett D’Costa, Magali Gentric, and Jason Waterhouse – brings together twenty-three artists who draw on the vegetal world to explore a range of ideas, including human–plant relationships, storytelling, beauty, fragility, ecologies and the environment. Running from 24 January until 1 March,…

Grained, a cross-cultural group exhibition curated by Playte in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery and Nongkrong Festival, will open in Brunswick this summer, stitching together teachings of intergenerational and collective cultural practices, using rice as both nourishment and a vessel of shared cultural histories across the Global South. Running from…

Bundanon will present a major exhibition of works by acclaimed Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999), alongside significant new commissions by leading contemporary First Nations women artists Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Janet Fieldhouse and Glenda Nicholls, from 7 March – 14 June 2026. Rosalie Gascoigne: Sky, Earth, Water will showcase Gascoigne’s poetic assemblages…

Finding beauty in imperfection, Charred is a Bruny Island exhibition celebrating salvaged Tasmanian timber through traditional craftsmanship, sustainability and wabi sabi philosophy. In Tasmania, artist and chairmaker James Crowther has found his creative home. Where others see discarded timber, Crowther sees possibility. Crowther has built a practice around salvaging what…

A major new permanent public artwork titled Upside-Down Garden by Indonesian/Australian artist Jumaadi has been unveiled in the through-site link of International House at Barangaroo South. For his first ever public artwork and most ambitious to date, Jumaadi’s Upside-Down Garden features hanging sculptural metalwork forms drawn from real, fantastic and…

TarraWarra Museum of Art has announced the return of its TarraWarra International series – paused during and after the pandemic – with TarraWarra International 2026: System Release, curated by Dr Emily Cormack (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne), who was appointed Head of Exhibitions and Programs at TarraWarra in April 2025. TarraWarra…

A major exhibition by Berlin-based Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson – Olafur Eliasson: Presence – has opened exclusively at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), where it occupies the entire ground floor and remains on display until 12 July 2026. Globally renowned for installations that challenge how we perceive ourselves and…