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.
Michael Zavros has won the 2026 Archibald Prize People's Choice Award for his portrait Alex with his tefillin in the sea.
Canberra glass artist Akie Haga has won the 2026 People's Choice Award in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, with visitors at the South Australian Museum voting overwhelmingly for her luminous glass sculpture, Soft Echo.
Journalist Neil Lade has spent decades telling other people's stories, but arts editor HELEN MUSA discovers his lifelong passion has always been painting, drawing and creating surreal worlds of his own.
A giant four-metre steel Murray cod, was installed at Tuggeranong Arts Centre on Friday, launching a collaborative project culminating in a lakeside artwork at November’s Craft + Design Canberra Festival, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Former curator at The National Portrait Gallery, April Phillips, will step into the role of artistic director and CEO of Canberra Contemporary while director Sophia Cai takes maternity leave.
A long-running environmental art award exhibition was unveiled on Sunday at the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery where the major prize of the day went to Sophie Baker for an impressionistic interpretation of Lake Ginninderra.
Based at Canberra Glassworks and her own studio in Burra, NSW, Annette Blair - one of Australia's leading glass artists - has won the 2026 FUSE Glass Prize, Australasia's richest award for contemporary glass, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"The National Gallery is offering a rare opportunity to see the complete cycle of 20 monumental tapestries about St Francis by Arthur Boyd. But aficionados may be shocked at Boyd's take on the gentle saint," says HELEN MUSA.
The National Gallery of Australia has on Thursday unveiled the full suite of 20 huge Saint Francis tapestries by Arthur Boyd to the assembled press before the exhibition Arthur Boyd: Tapestries goes on show to the public from Saturday.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Thomas Bucich's latest sculptural works that share a visual relationship with classical Greek sculpture and mythology.
A joyous romp through the world of art, and proof that creative power is at work among young Canberrans, has been unveiled at M16 Artspace, reports HELEN MUSA.
David Hockney, one of the most celebrated and influential British artists of modern times, has died aged 88.
Canberra Museum + Gallery, custodian of the Nolan Collection of 218+ artworks gifted by Sidney Nolan, this weekend opens Public Impressions: Sidney Nolan in Popular Media, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The male Maratus spider may well be the sexiest insect in the world, if viewed properly, far sexier than the peacock after whom the tiny arachnid has been nicknamed, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Liz Priestley's latest art works exhibited at Grainger Gallery where she uses the ancient encaustic technique of building up layers of wax, pigments and resin to form multiple layers of colour and texture.
From glass blowers to metal sculptors, the QPRC and Bendigo Bank 2026 Art Awards held on Saturday at The Q saw a record 87 entries competing across 12 prizes, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
