Art

Among dozens of artworks created by a prominent WA painter hang portraits of eight people whose identities remain unknown, and the artist's family want help to find out who they are.

After decades of being locked out of the art world, Thom Roberts feels "happy and beautiful" seeing his work displayed in the Archibald and Sulman prizes.

His recent painting may have caused offence to some of Sydney's Christian community, but Philjames explains how his artistic process is one of care and a deep fascination with iconography.

Evelyn Froend has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which means she wakes every day in chronic pain. She needs to wear braces on many of her joints just to stop them dislocating, but her condition is not well understood by the medical system.

Ellen van Neerven didn't grow up watching theatre. Now, after a prize-winning career as a poet and author, they premiere their debut play, Swim.    

These Arthur Boyd paintings, commissioned in 1984, show the Shoalhaven River landscape from dawn to midnight. Now, for the first time, they're on display in the place they were created. 

In her youth, Diana Wood Conroy created a tapestry every six weeks, but in the decades since, many of her wall hangings have been lost as the buildings they were hung in were refurbished or demolished.

Husband and wife Greg and Heidi Wane hope their new regional exhibition shows how film cameras and smartphones can complement each other in the world of photography.

Between a new stage play and book — Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An Undoing) and Val McDermid’s Queen Macbeth — Lady M has finally gotten out of that damned spot.

Sydney Theatre Company's award-winning Victorian gothic "cine-theatre" trilogy, combining live performance and video, has its final piece, with the premiere of a new adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.  

The news that supposed Picasso artworks at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art were fakes painted by a local artist has drawn a mixed response, with some describing it a damaging to the gallery's credibility — while others have lauded it as a publicity masterstroke.

Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) has admitted to displaying three fake Picasso paintings for more than three years.

Artist Natasha Walsh has enlisted major Australian creatives, from singer Montaigne to writer Bri Lee, to re-imagine major works of art history and empower the women at their centre.

The 'Picasso' artworks hanging in a toilet at Tasmania's Mona gallery are revealed to be fakes, with the artist responsible saying during the three-year-long ruse she "fantasised there would be a scandal".

Arthur Boyd walks along banks of the Shoalhaven River, which inspired many of his renowned landscape paintings.

The story of the state's oldest colonial shipwreck is being re-imagined in a museum exhibit that allows history buffs to see it through the eyes of divers, as well as visitors on board while it was still intact in 1837.

This year, Adrian Jangala Robertson became the first Aboriginal artist to be a finalist for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes in the same year. Now he's taking his art overseas.

This year's NAIDOC theme is Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud. Late artist Destiny Deacon lived that ethos.

Jet James was eight when his mother died tragically. His journey back from childhood trauma led him in an unexpected direction.

Ever wondered how artists create images of dinosaurs and other extinct animals? We go behind the scenes with a palaeoartist to find out how he brought an ancient "giga-goose" to life from a pile of bones.

Most of us find it hard to stomach seeing priceless artworks vandalised. But when we look back at the long history of attacking art in the name of protest, we seem to become far more lenient.

We've convened a literary cabal to look at the six authors and works vying for Australia's most prestigious literary award.

Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has written about the lives of famous women including Julia Gillard and Germaine Greer. But what's driving her to tell these stories?  

She's renowned for her photography, but Australian-born, LA-based artist Polly Borland has used inspiration from the pandemic and her famous architect father to create a stunning sculptural exhibition.

It was one of Australian artist Jasmine Crisp's "biggest ever life dreams" to paint an original international mural — and she had only one week to do it.