There is a tension in the Australian design industry. The desire to preserve and celebrate our heritage architecture is reckoning with a worsening housing crisis, a changing climate and the increasingly urgent call to find more sustainable ways to live. In Overlay: A New Australian Heritage, 15 creatives including architects,…
Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival presents its eighth edition in 2024 with 11 days of 300+ innovative exhibitions, displays, symposiums and talks throughout metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. Highlights in the 2024 program include a keynote from Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo, a symposium exploring speculative riverside designs for…
Energy retailer Momentum Energy has unveiled a program that will see the company incentivising some of its own customers to disconnect from gas. Momentum Energy will cover the gas abolishment fee of $242 for Victorian customers who work with Melbourne-based business Goodbye Gas to fully electrify their homes. The abolishment…
Fifteen makers and designers from Australia’s creative scene are leading the way in reshaping material practices through Conscious Craft. Established by Craft Victoria, this transformative initiative represents a major step towards sustainable creativity and collective action within the artistic community. Launching in May, Conscious Craft will debut with an exciting…
The Cape, a ground breaking sustainable community overlooking the ocean at Cape Paterson on Victoria’s Bass Coast, is proud to announce its participation in National Sustainable House Day on April 21, 2024. As part of this event, The Cape will open a suite of homes to the public, including the…
The Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, curated by artist and curator Dr Greer Honeywill in an initiative developed by HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast. The multidisciplinary exhibition brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century…
JamFactory has announced that 18 finalists have been selected for the 2024 Fuse glass prize. The judges selected the finalists from 101 high quality and diverse entries received from artists across Australia and New Zealand. The winner of the FUSE Glass Prize Established Artist Category will receive a $20,000 non-acquisitive cash…
Urban design experts and prominent Melburnians will take part in the City of Melbourne’s first-ever public event on the transformative Greenline Project, ahead of major works starting at Birrarung Marr. The free ‘From High Line to Greenline’ event is part of Council’s refreshed Melbourne Conversations series in 2024, which is…
TarraWarra Museum of Art has unveiled three new exhibitions open to the public concurrently from 23 March to 14 July 2024. Featuring new work by Melbourne-based contemporary artists Peter Atkins and Dana Harris, the exhibition SUPERsystems is presented in conversation with The Industrial Design of Clement Meadmore: The Harris/Atkins Collection, a comprehensive survey of innovative modernist…
As part of the landmark Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions, eight emerging First Nations artists are presenting ambitious new works in the exhibition My Country, which opened 22 March 2024 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The first and only initiative of its kind, the Country Road + NGV First…
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