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Indigenous artists among 2026 MA Art Prize finalists
Sydney Contemporary, in partnership with Principal Partner MA Financial Group, h...
Phoebe Blogg 13 Aug 2026
D Lan Galleries Sydney & Melbourne new exhibition highlights Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands
Bringing together nineteen senior artists from the seven art centres of the Anan...
Phoebe Blogg 12 Aug 2026
‘A feeling you will never forget’: Australia’s top First Nations artists celebrated at NATSIAA
"It's a feeling you will never forget. "Dr Shannon Brett, guest curator of the 2...
Natasha Clark 10 Aug 2026
From the Central Desert to the Torres Strait: DAAF celebrates 20 years
This year's Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair gathered more than 75 stalls from Aborigi...
Natasha Clark 10 Aug 2026
RMIT fashion enterprise program partners with Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation for 2026 Pathways Program
The DAAF (Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation) Pathways Program is a capacity...
Phoebe Blogg 10 Aug 2026
Fair marks 20 years as crowds show up for authentic art

A record flood that devastated Merrepen Arts hasn't stopped the centre mounting a special exhibition at one of Australia's biggest Aboriginal arts events.

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Liz Hobday (AAP) Aug 10, 2026
From Renaissance dreamscapes to digital ceremony: 2026 Telstra NATSIAA winners revealed

A Renaissance-inspired dreamscape, handwoven dillybags made from British Museum maps, and a digital recording of Tiwi song and dance are among the works recognised in Australia's leading First Nations...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Aug 7, 2026
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair opens to the public

The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) has officially returned for 2026. Now in its 20th year, the internationally recognised art fair held an impressive opening ceremony on August 6, featuring perform...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Aug 7, 2026
Indigenous Fashion Projects announce National Indigenous Fashion Award winners

Australia's leading First Nations artists, designers and creatives were recognised on Larrakia Country on Wednesday as the 2026 National Indigenous Fashion Awards (NIFA) celebrated excellence in Indig...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Aug 5, 2026
First Nations artistry showcased at Chau Chak Wing Museum

The artistry of First Nations women working with natural materials including woven fibres, bark and paper, underpins a new exhibition at the University of Sydney's Chau C...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Aug 5, 2026
IncarcerNation opens conversation on Indigenous incarceration in Australia

A major exhibition examining Australia's incarceration crisis and its impact on First Nations people has opened at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin as part of the 2026 Darwin Festiva...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 5, 2026
Indigenous creatives kick off Country to Couture in the Top End

Officially kicking off Sunday night, Indigenous Fashion Projects (IFP) celebrated a landmark moment on Larrakia Country as Country to Couture wrapped up the first of its newly expanded two-night sched...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Aug 3, 2026
First Nations fashion, textiles take Country to Couture

Indigenous culture's 60,000-plus years of stories are intersecting with high-end fashion on the runway in impeccable style. Indigenous designers and models are centre stage in the Northern Territory f...

Weaving workshop gives Magpie Goose fabrics new life

Aboriginal Art Co. hosted a no-waste wearable art workshop at the weekend, bringing together weaving, fashion and Indigenous storytelling. The Magpie Goose x Leece Carmichael workshop invited particip...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jul 28, 2026
First Nations artist Desirai Saunders continuing to grow her community-focused work

Proud Gunggari woman and artist Desirai Saunders is a digital illustrator known for her bold, character-driven portraits that reflect contemporary First Nations experiences and urban cultural identity...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Jul 20, 2026
Potter Museum of Art opens major exhibition exploring the enduring significance of Australia's iconic gum tree

The University of Melbourne's Potter Museum of Art has opened a major new exhibition: Ngarn Wa'ngal: Art of the gum tree. Running until November 21, the exhibition explores this tree as a source of cr...

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Jul 10, 2026
British Museum maps become paper dillybags / danala for NATSIAA finalist

Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and KarraJarri artist Jenna Mayilema Lee has turned maps from the British Museum into paper danala for the Telstra Work on Paper Award at the 2026 Telstra National A...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jul 1, 2026
NATSIAA finalist brings together dreamscape, history and resistance

Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley has brought oil painting, politics and the Western canon together in his finalist work for the Telstra General Painting Award at the 2026 Telstra National Aboriginal an...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jul 1, 2026
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