Bridie O'Brien, a Canberra landscape painter who only recently moved to the national capital, has been chosen as the campaign artist for the 2026 Affordable Art Fair Sydney, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Al Munro, Wendy Teakel and emerging artist Claire Fletcher, whose contrasting works range from playful architectural forms to landscapes and abstract space.
Old astronomical glass plates find new life as Patsy Payne turns scientific records of the night sky into art at Megalo, reviews KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
"Striking similarities not just to rock formations, but to Aboriginal art exude from each work. Some take on the form of a bark canvas, with colours to match." ROB KENNEDY reviews an exhibition by Christiane Keller.
Five decades of Roslyn Kean's printmaking reveal extraordinary technical mastery, geometric complexity and a beguiling Japanese influence, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
Canberra artist Sophie Dumaresq is taking an unlikely travelling companion to one of Australia's most unconventional arts festivals, an animatronic shark named Baby, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
ROB KENNEDY reviews English artist David Hockney's works in the latest exhibition at National Gallery of Australia that shows how his use of portraiture functions as an aesthetic anchor in his art.
"From its inception in 2017 under the name Contour556, named for the height above sea level of Lake Burley Griffin, the Canberra Art Biennial has been driven by place," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
One of Australia's most admired and influential artists, Vivienne Binns, has died in Canberra aged 85, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The prime minister has announced a $500 million painting, deemed a waste of taxpayer funds when first purchased, will depart Australia's capital for the west.
Melbourne photographer Nathan Beard has won the final National Photographic Portrait Prize, it was announced at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday evening.
With the ongoing bid to see Canberra recognised as a UNESCO City of Design in mind, the 2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival was launched in fine style at the National Film and Sound Archive on Thursday evening.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews 'Move Me!' the latest exhibition by one of Canberra’s well known artists and a long established lecturer in painting at the ANU School of Art and Design, Elisa Crossing.
Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud has won the Art Handlers’ Award at the 2026 National Photographic Portrait Prize for his work UNTITLED: 01, 2025, from the series What remains?
The artworks of poet and visual artist Judith Nangala Crispin and visual artist Stephen Harrison, both locals, combine to make one powerful exhibition, Afternoon of the Harpies, reviews ROB KENNEDY.
A life-sized sculpture of Canberra’s “Soup Kitchen Lady” Stasia Dabrowski has been unveiled in Garema Place, close to the spot where she fed people in need every Friday night for more than three decades.
The sixth Canberra Art Biennial, with a program of new commissions, public artworks and international collaborations, was announced at the Australian National Botanic Gardens on Thursday by ACT Arts Minister, Michael Pettersson.
A portrait celebrating the life and work of Gamilaroi Elder and bush food pioneer Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo was unveiled by the Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, on Tuesday at the National Portrait Gallery.
Afternoon of the Harpies promises, or perhaps threatens, to be an exhibition of fantastical creatures, insect angels, carpets and luminescent fish-trap spaceships by two of the Canberra region's most provocative and adventurous artists.
