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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
It was while researching the provenance of a child’s boomerang, found in topsoil near the site of Melbourne Zoo, that Kimberley Moulton found the key to her curatorial vision for We Are Eagles, the latest edition of the TarraWarra Biennial. The Yorta Yorta curator worked with artefacts and other historical material at Melbourne Museum for years before moving into contemporary art in her current role at the Tate in London.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning
Khaled Sabsabi, the Lebanese-Australian artist dumped as Australia's representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale, has spoken publicly for the first time since Creative Australia withdrew his highly prized commission. In an interview with ABC Radio National's The Art Show, Sabsabi described the impact of the Commonwealth arts funding body's February decision as "devastating".
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously dump him as Australia's representative artist to the 2026 Venice Biennale.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Heath |Daniel Browning
An exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne featuring Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi's work has been postponed indefinitely. Sabsabi, who is based in Western Sydney, was thrown into the national spotlight when he and curator Michael Dagostino were announced on February 7 as Australia's representatives at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning
For Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, art that isn't a catalyst for something—that isn't driven by critique of gatekeeping museums, the criminal justice system, or the wilful historical amnesia and complacency—isn't worth making.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
In art, verisimilitude — representing things as they appear — is something like telling the unvarnished truth and it makes perfect sense that it's the form in which Vincent Fantauzzo is most comfortable. His first commercial artworks were actually counterfeit 50 dollar notes, just one of the uncomfortable truths which he tells in his new autobiography, Unveiled.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
Robert Andrew's artwork features simple robotic machines, with a stylus that impulsively draws or leaves a trace; not so much artificial intelligence as incidental happenstance. Although he works with technology, Andrew has always been deeply inspired by country. So it made sense that he was invited to make work for a new group exhibition at Bundanon, the timeless yet scarred landscape that figured in the paintings of its previous owner, Arthur Boyd.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
Nici Cumpston has played a transformative role at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Over the past 16 years she has driven First Nations curatorial practice to new heights, shaping what began as a biennial exhibition into a festival of contemporary Indigenous art that surveys artmaking across the continent.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
When questions were raised in Federal Parliament about two artworks by Khaled Sabsabi from 2006 and 2007, it was enough to convince Creative Australia to dump the artist from next year's Venice Biennale.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham
Driven by their mission statement to create a queer wonderland, Will and Gareth Huxley are true polymorphs. A real-life couple who rival camp predecessors Gilbert and George, Will and Gareth Huxley talk about their long-term collaboration and the transformation and reinvention that exemplifies queer experience. Garrett speaks about finding his voice as a Gumbaynggir and Yorta Yorta person ahead of The Huxleys' performance at the First Nations concert gala, Blak & Deadly.
