Contemporary jewellery exhibition by 11 Victorian First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and designers participating in the first year of the Koorie Heritage Trust’s inaugural Blak Design program. Blak Design is a ground-breaking four-year program presented by the KHT to foster First Nations cultural innovation within the Victorian design…

Applications are now open to participate in Australia’s leading international design event, Melbourne Design Week 2022 (March 17 – 27). Reaffirming its reputation as a truly creative state, Melbourne and wider Victoria will again host an 11-day program of talks, tours, workshops, and exhibitions, including the $20,000 Australian Furniture Design…

The benefits of combining solar panel installations with green roofs has been confirmed by new research, which demonstrates significant improvements in energy production, stormwater filtration and most surprisingly, a major increase in animal biodiversity. The study, led by UTS researchers Peter Irga, Fraser Torpy and Robert Fleck set out to measure the advantages…

The winner’s announcement of the 35th annual Dulux Colour Awards will be live-streamed on Tuesday, 31 August 2021 4:30pm AEST. This will also mark the launch of the 2022 Dulux Colour Forecast: an opportunity for guests to experience the new palettes and colours of the coming season in an immersive…

Bark Ladies is a major ground floor exhibition at NGV International that celebrates the NGV’s extraordinary collection of bark paintings and larrakitj (painted hollow poles) by women artists working out of the Yolngu-run art centre, Buku Larrngay Mulka Centre (Buku), situated in Northeast Arnhem Land. Before 1970, no Yolngu women painted sacred…

Open House Launceston launched its third program on Thursday, 12 August, as part of the City of Launceston’s Places of Launceston event. The program, which will be held on Saturday 28 August, went live on the Open House Hobart website at 8pm. This year’s program consists of 27 buildings, activities and…

Uniting two important Australian artists for the first time, Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne | Lorraine Connelly-Northey brings attention to the shared materiality at the heart of the practices of both Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) and Lorraine Connelly-Northey (b. 1967) and their transformative use of found and discarded objects to create surprising and…

The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) – Australia’s peak national design body, released the inaugural recipients for its Designers Australia 2021 Awards. The final winners out of a shortlist of 74 across the country, reflect the designers’ ability to make a strong contribution to a better world and include three…

After taking up residency at Fed Square’s River Terrace to demonstrate the sustainability blueprint of the future, Fed Square have announced Future Food System by Joost will be extended until June 2022 with a 3D virtual tour available for the very first time. The self-sustaining, 87-square-metre home and urban farm…

JamFactory is thrilled to present the 2021 JamFactory ICON Pepai Jangala Carroll. A painter and ceramic artist based in Pukatja and working from Ernabella Arts, Carroll is a Luritja/Pintupi man and the first Aboriginal artist to be celebrated in this series of exhibitions that launched in 2013. JamFactory’s annual ICON…