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…

The first KlimaKover prototype shelter is now open to the public on Governors Island in New York, where it will remain through November 2025. Developed by Henning Larsen with the University of Pennsylvania and AIL Research, the low-energy modular system cools public spaces using 10 times less power than conventional…

Celebrated Melbourne-based fibre artist Tammy Kanat will debut Circle of Her, her most ambitious body of work to date, at the Jewish Museum of Australia from 18 September 2025 to 22 March 2026. Presented as the latest Eva and Marc Besen Contemporary Artist Commission, the exhibition marks a bold new…

Ballarat will soon be home to Sunnyside, a large-scale art experience presented by award-winning creative studio The Social Crew. Running 6–23 November 2025 at the historic Mining Exchange, the inaugural commission features renowned UK artist Morag Myerscough with Chasing Sunbeams, created through community collaboration. Sunnyside will showcase the first regional…

Otomys, a leading contemporary and commercial gallery in the heart of Melbourne, has announced Still Point, a landmark exhibition celebrating fifteen years since the gallery’s inception. Opening at Melbourne’s historic Villa Alba Museum in Kew Gardens from 13 to 23 November, Still Point brings together new works by emerging and…

Robin Boyd Foundation has announced KOYA: shed architecture running from 4 to 7 September at Walsh Street. The exhibition examines the humble shed – called koya in Japanese – as an enduring architectural typology that challenges dominant ideas of scale, permanence and construction. Modest and often overlooked, the shed sits…