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Island Welcome is on at Hahndorf Academy, Peramangk/Hahndorf until 20 July 2025.Curated by Belinda Newick, this group ex...
11/07/2025

Island Welcome is on at Hahndorf Academy, Peramangk/Hahndorf until 20 July 2025.

Curated by Belinda Newick, this group exhibition invites visitors to reflect on themes of hospitality, belonging and social justice through the lens of contemporary jewellery. Inspired by the tradition of welcome garlands in islander cultures, each participating artist has created a unique neckpiece, lei or garland to explore what it means to offer welcome, particularly in the context of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.

Crafted with care and political consciousness, these adornments speak to cultural values, activism through making, and the role of jewellery as both personal and public gesture.

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Image credit:
KATH INGLIS 'Lei from the Welcome mat' 2017 faceted segments hand cut from used thongs, silk thread, sterling silver, patina 36 x 17 x 2.5 cm (neckpiece), 25 x 18 x 5 cm (thongs).

Courtesy of Kath Inglis

Mary Tonkin’s Rambles is on at Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla until 20 July 2025.Working entirely en plein air in the damp...
10/07/2025

Mary Tonkin’s Rambles is on at Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla until 20 July 2025.

Working entirely en plein air in the damp bushland of Corhanwarrabul/Mt Dandenong, Tonkin creates vast, immersive landscapes that hum with presence and memory. Her paintings are built slowly, sometimes over years, layering light, scent, movement, and the tactile closeness of ferns, branches, and changing skies. In Rambles, expansive oil works are shown alongside pencil, charcoal, and ceramic drawings that reflect the meditative processes behind them.

Each piece unfolds like a breath held in nature, inviting us into an ever-present moment where time becomes elastic and sensory.

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Image credit:
Mary Tonkin, 'Ramble, Kalorama' [detail] 2017-19, oil on linen, 180 x 1890 cm. Photography by Matthew Stanton

Courtesy of Mary Tonkin and Australian Galleries

Gene A’hern’s Dawn Chorus is on at Cassandra Bird, Gadigal/Sydney until 19 July 2025This new body of work expands A’hern...
10/07/2025

Gene A’hern’s Dawn Chorus is on at Cassandra Bird, Gadigal/Sydney until 19 July 2025

This new body of work expands A’hern’s lyrical investigations into memory, cyclical time, and the poetics of place. Inspired by the quiet transformation of morning light and the calls of early birds, Dawn Chorus becomes a meditation on renewal and rhythm.

Working across oil stick, pastel, and gestural paint, A’hern conjures atmospheric compositions that oscillate between abstraction and narrative. Personal memory meets landscape, and material intuition mirrors nature’s quiet shifts, each painting like a breath drawn at the edge of a new day.

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Image credit:
1. Installation image at CASSANDRA BIRD
2. Gene A'Hern Dawn Chorus 8, 2025 oil on board 122 x 172.5cm
3. Gene A'Hern Dawn Chorus 4, 2025 pastel on paper 200 x 350cm

Courtesy of of the artist, and Cassandra Bird Gallery.

Dean Cross’ IMPOSITIONS is on at STATION, Gadigal/Sydney until 19 July 2025.Cross transforms the gallery into both subje...
09/07/2025

Dean Cross’ IMPOSITIONS is on at STATION, Gadigal/Sydney until 19 July 2025.

Cross transforms the gallery into both subject and stage, interrogating whiteness not just as colour, but as structure, ideology, and power. With crumpled photographic prints, cast bronzes of animal waste, and evocative paintings, he challenges the institutional gaze and its complicity in colonial violence.

The white cube becomes an actor in this dialogue, a surface that dominates, asserts, and historicises. Refusing tokenism or safe cultural shorthand, IMPOSITIONS speaks to survival, resistance, and the shifting conditions imposed upon First Nations identity.

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Image credit:
1. Dean Cross, 2nd April, 2025, oil, upholstery nails, canvas on timber, 13.0 x 19.0cm. Photo: Document Photography
2. Dean Cross, 2nd April, 2025, oil, upholstery nails, canvas on timber, 13.0 x 19.0cm. Photo: Document Photography

Courtesy of STATION Australia

Peter Stichbury’s Soft Machines is on at Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal/Sydney until 12 JulyThese haunting new portraits ima...
09/07/2025

Peter Stichbury’s Soft Machines is on at Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal/Sydney until 12 July

These haunting new portraits imagine early artificial intelligences as fully formed beings. With his signature oil-on-linen precision, Stichbury crafts eerily lifelike figures that exist somewhere between human and machine, neither real nor entirely fictitious.

Each subject, drawn from photographic media and public image archives, becomes a synthetic persona, a visual interface rather than a portrait. In exploring the blurred lines between consciousness and simulation, Soft Machines reflects on the psychological and emotional ambiguity of our increasingly digital age.

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Image credit:

1.Peter Stichbury, ‘Xenos (Xenogenic Entity Neural Observation System)’, 2025, Oil on linen, 30 x 25cm.
2. Exhibition detail, Peter Stichbury, ‘Athena Syn’, 2024, Oil on linen, 50 x 40cm.
3. Peter Stichbury, ‘Nettie 1983 (Neural Entity for Talking, Thinking, and Experiments)’, 2025, Oil on linen, 77.5 x 60cm.
4. Exhibition view, Peter Stichbury at Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Soft Machines’, June–July 2025

Courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts, Sydney

Winter 2025 is on now at Scott Livesey Galleries, Naarm/Melbourne until 19 July.Scott Livesey Galleries presents Winter ...
08/07/2025

Winter 2025 is on now at Scott Livesey Galleries, Naarm/Melbourne until 19 July.

Scott Livesey Galleries presents Winter 2025, a dynamic rotating exhibition of new and recent works by a range of represented artists. The exhibition celebrates the breadth of the gallery’s stable while offering a seasonal snapshot of contemporary Australian art.

The presentation is constantly evolving, offering viewers the chance to encounter new works with each visit.

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Image credit:
1. Todd Hunter, 'I'm Lost & I'm Found', oil on canvas, 183 x 152 cm
2. Julia Ritson, 'Untitled 2101' (detail), oil on panel, 40 x 40 cm

Courtesy of the artist and Scott Livesey Galleries

Peter Robinson: Backwards Forward is on at Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 19 July.Peter Robinson’s latest exhibit...
08/07/2025

Peter Robinson: Backwards Forward is on at Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 19 July.

Peter Robinson’s latest exhibition delves into the ancient rock art of his Ngāi Tahu heritage, drawing on charcoal and ink to create layered, enigmatic works on paper that explore ancestry, cultural memory, and the porous line between past and present.

In Backwards Forward, Robinson’s bold facial motifs, both Māori and Pākehā, are fractured and softened through acts of crumpling, folding, and smudging. The resulting surfaces evoke the weathered quality of cave drawings, while also confronting the legacy of paper as a colonial tool.

The title references the whakataukī “Ka mua, ka muri” (walking backwards into the future), and Robinson’s work embodies this dual motion. The medium of charcoal, rich with historical and symbolic weight, connects ancient tradition with a tactile immediacy.

A major figure in Aotearoa’s contemporary art scene, Robinson was awarded the Walters Prize in 2008 and represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

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Image credit:
Peter Robinson, Backwards Forward, 2025, Installation view, Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne

Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery

Tyrone Te Waa's clīnīc is on at FUTURES, Naarm/Melbourne until 19 July.In his first solo exhibition in Naarm and the ina...
07/07/2025

Tyrone Te Waa's clīnīc is on at FUTURES, Naarm/Melbourne until 19 July.

In his first solo exhibition in Naarm and the inaugural show at FUTURES’ new location, Aotearoa-based artist Tyrone Te Waa transforms the gallery into an energetic and mythic zone of healing, humour, and transformation. Bursting with tactile wall works and soft sculptural busts, clīnīc draws on mātauranga Māori, q***r symbology, personal mythology, and club aesthetics to conjure a dazzling cast of characters.

Fringed felted wool portraits feature eyeballs, rats, bows and orifices, while timber-framed busts mix strength and softness to explore gender duality and embodied memory.

Wrapping and weaving techniques recall ceremonial and protective Māori practices, transforming each piece into a charged, living form.

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Image credit:
1. Tyrone Te Waa, 'RŌCKY ///', felted wool, stretcher bar, fringe, 54 x 32 x 6.5 cm
2. Tyrone Te Waa, 'Līōns Tōngūe', felted wool, stretcher bar, 45 x 40 x 6 cm

Courtesy of the artist and FUTURES

Introducing Bleach* 2025 from 31 July to 10 August 2025.Curated by acclaimed artist Michael Zavros, this year’s Bleach* ...
07/07/2025

Introducing Bleach* 2025 from 31 July to 10 August 2025.

Curated by acclaimed artist Michael Zavros, this year’s Bleach* festival unfolds across 11 days with a bold, immersive program reflecting his refined visual sensibility. Spanning art, music, opera, theatre, storytelling, and large-scale public installations, the festival transforms three major hubs; Kurrawa Park, Emerald Lakes, and HOTA into dynamic cultural playgrounds.

Celebrating the unique vibrancy of the Gold Coast’s multicultural identity, Bleach* 2025 presents a mix of landmark works by leading international and Australian artists alongside powerful contributions from local creatives. It’s an ambitious, visually arresting festival that invites audiences to witness the extraordinary in the everyday.

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Courtesy of Experience Gold Coast

Noongar Country 2025 is on at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Goomburrup/Bunbury until 20 July.Marking 25 years of this la...
07/07/2025

Noongar Country 2025 is on at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Goomburrup/Bunbury until 20 July.

Marking 25 years of this landmark exhibition, Noongar Country 2025: Celebrating Continuing Connection to Noongar Boodja honours the powerful bond between the Noongar people and their ancestral lands. Curated by Willman, Ballardong Noongar artist Candice Nannup, the show brings together 104 artworks by 52 First Nations artists, each offering a unique and vital expression of culture, identity, and storytelling.

With works ranging from painting and sculpture to textiles and multimedia, the exhibition affirms the continuity of Noongar culture as living, evolving, and deeply rooted in Country. A milestone moment for BRAG and the wider community, this year’s edition celebrates connection, creativity, and the strength of collective memory.

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Image credit:
1. Noongar Country 2025 exhibition. Artwork: Rebecca Jetta, 'Djet Wirriny', 2025, acrylic on canvas. Photography by Cassandra Edwards.
2. Noongar Country 2025 exhibition. Artwork: Rhona Wallam, 'The Power We Never Had', 2025, painted lamp shade.

Courtesy of the City of Bunbury

Kelly Barclay’s STAMPEDE is on at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns from 11 to 13 July 2025.Presented as part of CIAF’s...
05/07/2025

Kelly Barclay’s STAMPEDE is on at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns from 11 to 13 July 2025.

Presented as part of CIAF’s Pay Attention! Art Fair Showcase, this sculptural series sees buffalo and cattle skulls transformed into richly painted totems of memory and resistance. A proud Waanyi/Gangalidda woman from Doomadgee, Barclay reflects on the brutal legacy of Queensland’s pastoral frontier, where First Nations people were displaced and forced into unpaid labour and reclaims that history through powerful, hand-painted forms.

Marked with intricate patterning, cultural motifs, and bold symbolism, Barclay’s works embody stories of survival, Country, and cultural resilience. Each skull becomes a vessel of strength and sovereignty, inviting viewers to reckon with history while celebrating the endurance of community and connection.

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Image credit:
Kelly Barclay with longhorn skull.

Images courtesy of the artist.

Ara Dolatian's Whispers from the Floodplain is on at James Makin Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 26 July 2025.Opening eve...
04/07/2025

Ara Dolatian's Whispers from the Floodplain is on at James Makin Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 26 July 2025.

Opening event: Saturday 5 July, 2—4pm!

In Whispers from the Floodplain, Ara Dolatian presents a striking series of ceramic sculptures that draw from Mesopotamian artifacts, literature, and mythology to explore themes of transformation, identity, and resilience. Reimagining ancient forms through a contemporary and diasporic lens, Dolatian creates works that feel both excavated and speculative, material echoes of a mythic past refracted through q***r, cultural memory.

Glazed with molten gold and cratered black surfaces, the sculptures conjure a tension between ruin and regality. Forms inspired by the Erbil Citadel and deities of Mesopotamian legend emerge as heterotopias, counter-sites where sacred and symbolic, personal and historical, collapse and coexist.

These imagined relics invite reflection on power, displacement, and the enduring resonance of ancient knowledge systems.

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Image credit:
1. Ara Dolatian, ‘Whispers from the Floodplain’, 2025, James Makin Gallery installation view with artist, by Brigid Cara Reid
2. Ara Dolatian, ‘Whispers from the Floodplain’, 2025, James Makin Gallery installation view, by Brigid Cara Reid

Courtesy of the artist and James Makin Gallery

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VAULT Magazine

Produced quarterly, VAULT identifies the pre-eminent artists, designers, collectors and enthusiasts in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

With an enduring interest in fashion, architecture, food, literature and the finest forms of visual expression, VAULT offers a fresh and insightful perspective into the world and mind of the creative.

Each issue champions a new sense of appreciation for contemporary creativity and speaks fluently to a community of readers passionate about the arts and corresponding culture.