A crowd sourced art news feed.

Queensland's best and brightest Indigenous artists and organisations have been recognised at this year's Cairns Indigenous Art Fair's Art Awards. Hosted by First Nations actor, director, singer, songwriter, comedian and writer, Elaine Crombie, CIAF 2020 Art Award recipients were chosen by an esteemed judging panel comprising Australia's leading Indigenous curators and artists, Bruce Johnson-McLean, Carly Lane and Judy Watson (refer to panellist bios at bottom of media release).

Read Article

The exhibition Fire & Brimstone casts a watching eye over the corporations and individuals who continue to choose profit over people and climate catastrophe. Before there was a virus crisis, many expert reports warned of the need to close the inequality gap. The reports all pointed to our declining health, life expectancy and rising numbers of preventable deaths; especially in prisons, aged care and rural and remote communities which, in Australia, largely comprise First Nations peoples. The most shocking work in Fire & Brimstone is 'Kumanjayi', Chips Mackinolty's stark red and black text memorial to the 437 black deaths in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Report 1996). Very few of its 330 recommendations have been implemented. Every year, Aboriginal people continue to die in custody. Mackinolty's work is subtitled, "and still counting".

Read Article

Summer 2020 will go down in History as the Summer with no festivals, with fewer cultural events than ever because of Covid-19 safety measures: but then when Social Distancing became a thing...it became a festival as well! Here we're talking about a Website that collects online much of the art and performances that this year got cancelled or postponed all around the globe; free to be viewed and enjoyed by everyone, even if not in person. @summer2020 @nofestivalsin2020 @socialdistancing @postponedart @artisalive @onlineart @onlinefestival

Read Article

Round three of Play It Forward's online singing competition features Jazz/Blues, Country and Original Composition (any style). We are very honoured to welcome Katie Noonan as judge of the Jazz/Blues section. Play It Forward's Artistic Director, Dr Jonathon Welch AM comments We have all been so impressed and inspired by the calibre of singers who've entered our competition. We are thrilled to include an Original Composition section, and can't wait to hear new compositions written by our entrants. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, make sure you get your entries in by Wednesday 30th September 11.59PM AEST. No extension is possible, you have to be in it, to win it! #singingcompetition @playitforwardoz @PermissionToShineOnline @jonathonwelchartist

Read Article

JUTE Theatre Company's five-day creative development for emerging playwright Charmaine Armstrong, aka, Dizzy Doolan's new work, Fearless will culminate in a public showcase on Friday 4 September 2020 at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre. Fearless is the story of First Nations female rapper Dizzy, who comes from a long line of fighters, survivors, musicians and protestors.

Read Article

Komang's music possesses a unique feminine strength that is empowering and entirely engaging. Her knack for weaving stories into electronic soul & 90s house-style production is truly exciting - I can't wait to hear more from Komang. “ Sui Zhen

Read Article

For the past week the light has shone brightly on Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture as Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) delivered its 11th season and first digital program

Read Article

TAKE AWAY | August - September 2020. Exhibiting Artists include: Bela Ivanyi OAM, Daniel Pata, David Asher Brook, Edith Cowlishaw, Erika Beck, Freda Teamay, Graham Marchant, John Edwards, Judith Trick, Kerry Johns, Kerwayne Berry, Lisa Carrett, Lucinda James, Madeleine Tuckfield-Carrano, Mike Buick, Nikki Suebewongpat, Rachael Morris, Ross Skinner, Sarah Dalby, Victoria Peel, Yong Kang Gao.

Read Article

The worldwide smash hit COME FROM AWAY has been rescheduled to play at the magnificent Capitol Theatre from 3 June 2021.

Read Article

The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie have launched the Lake Art Prize, a new biennial national acquisitive art prize valued at $25,000.

Read Article

Shining a light on Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture over 10 exciting days, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) is live from 6pm today and the whole world is invited.

Read Article

The 2020 Fellow will be awarded $25,000 and have the chance to work at Belvoir in 2021 as a resident artist.

Read Article

Presenting For Your Pleasure, a new media art exhibition exclusive to the TikTok platform. 13.08.2020-31.08.2020. TikTok is a place where people dance around their kitchens, play pranks on their families, connect with their friends, laugh, cry and sing. Surprising, heartwarming and almost always funny, TikTok takes note of where you linger, what you like' and feeds you quick hits of dopamine just for you'. The twelve artists in For Your Pleasure use sound, video, performance, dance, collage and pop culture to celebrate the connectivity, intimacy and relatability of 2020's most downloaded app. In a nod to TikTok's For You Page', For Your Pleasure gives you art you didn't know you needed, from the comfort of your smartphone.

Read Article

For ten days in September, film fans will be able to stream a fully curated program of pertinent and eye-opening shorts.

Read Article

Melissa Cameron reimagines the discarded steel detritus of suburbia, to reconnect and re-make her experience of place. @bridgetkennedy_projectspace #contemporaryjewellery #jewellery

Read Article

It's your time to shine Pop, Soul and Folk singers the closing date for round two of Play It Forward's online singing competition Permission to Shine has been extended to this Sunday 16th August at 11.59 AEST! We are thrilled to announce that Danielle Matthews will judge the Pop section. Follow us on social media to stay in touch with our news. All the details you need to enter are on our website. You've got to be in it to win it!!! Get your entries in NOW! @PermissionToShineOnline @playitforwardoz #singingcompetition

Read Article

Picturing Footscray is a free open-entry photography prize that has been celebrating Melbourne's unique inner-west suburb of Footscray since 2016, documenting a period of significant change. In 2020, this is particularly poignant. Against the backdrop of home-isolation and a global pandemic, life as we know it has changed and we're adapting with it. Welcome to Picturing Footscray, virtually! @vuinthecommunity #vuinthecommunity #picturingfootscray

Read Article

Two well established and award-winning artists are joining forces to bring their exhibition POWER of STYLE to The Old Fire Station Gallery for four weeks. Redcliffe Art Society [RAS] has been the art home of both Enid Bullock and Maya Kuperman, who became friends because of shared similarities. Their love of drawing was fostered during their childhoods, and they kept this love for art with them always. However, these artists have emerged from quite different backgrounds.

Read Article

Hear from artist Tom Mùller for an insight into his WA Now “ MONOLITH SCORES exhibition. @artgallerywa #artgallerywa #myagwamoment #wanow

Read Article

Connect with Arts Project Australia from home.

Read Article

a group show by former NMTAFE graduates

Read Article

Entries to State Theatre Company South Australia's major award for the encouragement and support of new writing talent close on Aug 14.

Read Article

Three storytellers from Aboriginal language groups across South Australia are sharing their cultural knowledge as part of a free online experience presented by Adelaide Festival Centre's Something on Saturday program.

Read Article

The retrospective K. H. Hödicke, which is now on view at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München is coming to Berlin in October!

Read Article

The Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund has awarded three fellowships totalling $240,000 as the creative industries continue to call for critical financial support of Australia's writers and artists.

Read Article

TAFE NSW electronic music student Haemish Wellard has been selected to collaborate with Limelight artist Wendy Zhang to compose music for her visually stunning 2021 Vivid Sydney project.

Read Article

Riverside Theatres Digital presents COME DANCE AND SING with Jay Laga'aia and Friends

Read Article

Award winning singer and conductor of the ABC TV smash hit, Choir of Hard Knocks, Dr Jonathon Welch AM, invites you to join our exciting NEW FREE ONLINE choir program. Online rehearsals will take place via ZOOM one Sunday a month to the end of 2020, between 5pm - 6pm to rehearse and then chat afterwards with your choir buddies! Calling all dads, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, cousins and mates! @MENALOUDMA

Read Article

This episode examines the tearing down of monuments. Is it the correcting of history, or the destruction of public art?

Read Article

Pozible, the Australian crowdfunding service provider, headquartered in Melbourne, has now distributed $100m+ for artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and communities since 2010. They have recently celebrated their 10th birthday and have helped thousands of local creatives and organisations to raise awareness and funding for a range of projects in their decade of operation.

Read Article