Visual Art

The acclaimed Dunghutti artist is using his latest exhibition to challenge perceptions of Aboriginal art and the systemic issues creatives face in Australia.

Girramay, Yidinji and Kuku-Yalanji artist Tony Albert hopes to "take every item of 'Aboriginalia' in Australia out of circulation".

Last year, Khaled Sabsabi was appointed, sacked and then reinstated as Australia's representative to the Venice Biennale. Now he opens two installations at the world's most prestigious art exhibition.

Mother at Melbourne's NGV offers contrasting depictions of motherhood, from Toscani's Madonna and Child to First Nations weaving. 

The Melbourne-based artist painted Pitjantjatjara elder Iluwanti Ken, who is known for her large-scale drawings and was also a finalist in this year's Wynne Prize.

Unable to return to her homeland, Melbourne-based artist Nadia Hernández has reconnected with her culture through art.

Revealed, Perth's long-running showcase of Aboriginal art from around Western Australia, allows budding artists to discover their creative side while strengthening their cultural bonds.

What began as an awkward pose for the Archibald Prize became a meditation on why portrait painting still matters in the age of the iPhone.

Sean Layh has won the $3,000 Packing Room Prize at this year's Archibald Prize for his portrait of Jacob Collins, titled The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke.

A Sydney plastics factory warms large sheets of plastic for artist Anya Pesce to sculpt. 

The legacy of nuclear testing, environmental degradation and more among the challenges facing Australia, as explored by artists in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian art.

During her short residency in Sydney, the statue of sex worker Joy had many detractors and was even vandalised. Thirty years later, she has returned, with her supporters hoping she will dismantle stereotypes that still plague the industry.

An exhibition bridges the gap between art and science by inviting visitors to imagine the world through the senses of other species and consider our own fragile relationship with nature.

A man from Paris has won a Picasso painting worth 1 million euros ($1.6 million) with a 100-euro raffle ticket.

Paper dolls, wrestlers and cloudscapes appear in an exhibition by a Western Sydney artist collective at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

An exhibition of First Nations art from the APY Lands in South Australia brings together 30 large-scale works by nearly 50 artists.

Horse drawings and handcrafted ceramics from local artists and artisans are among the arts and crafts you can find at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

After a lifetime of capturing Tasmanian landscapes, Joan Humble is holding her final exhibition. The 88-year-old has a terminal cancer diagnosis, but she is determined to keep painting as long as she can hold a brush.

A new show at the Heide Museum of Modern Art explores how the famous Heide Circle reimagined the family in radical ways in the 50s and 60s.

The new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery brings together the work of two Australian artists working nearly half a century apart, and asks visitors to find the sparks connecting them.