From the suburbs to the bush and the inner city, Australians have been obsessed with the idea of home and the dream of home ownership.
In this exhibition comedian, television presenter, and architecture and design enthusiast Tim Ross casts …
PIX — Australia’s first pictorial news weekly — hit newsstands around the country in January 1938.
With its eye-catching lipstick-red logo, PIX delivered a new style of journalism, using photographs to tell daring stories of modern life. Always intended to …
Paddy’s Markets Haymarket has long been an icon of Sydney’s Chinatown. Library photographers Bruce York and Joy Mei En Lai captured Paddy’s and its stallholders in August 2024, during the recent redevelopment.
Alongside historic images from the Library’s collection, these
Many overseas countries have turned their underground train stations in to works of art. Paris is famous for the artwork in its Metro and Moscow’s chanderliered ceiling is a mecca for tourists round the world with the benefit that the …
Above photo : One of Australia’s finest artists Janet Dawson.
Janet Dawson (born 1935) is one of Australia’s pre-eminent artists. Throughout a distinguished career spanning over six decades of practice, she remains an artist who has refused to be bound …
The Art Gallery of New South Wales was pleased to announce that Brisbane artist Julie Fragar has won the Archibald Prize 2025 and $100,000 for her portrait of fellow Brisbane artist and colleague Justene Williams, titled Flagship Mother Multiverse …
Gene A’Hern has won the Sir John Sulman Prize 2025 and $40,000 for his work Sky painting, a bold, vibrant and gestural work that draws on his relationship to the Blue Mountains where he lives and works. This is …
Sydney artist Jude Rae has won the Wynne Prize 2025 and $50,000 for her painting Pre-dawn sky over Port Botany container terminal, depicting an immense sky underlaid with the rust reds of impending sunrise.
Rae’s painting was selected …
Above : Lewis Miller. Self portrait. Oil on Belgian linen
The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered in the Archibald Prize that were not …
The Art Gallery of New South Wales annual Archie Party will be held this year on Friday 4th July between 7pm and 11pm. The event is an 18+ event. Tickets are $45 adult, $40 student/concession, $36 for Art Gallery members.…