Gina Fairley

Sydney

visual Arts Editor at ArtsHub UK

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1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

We take a look at the arts news that pushed to the top of the heap this week. Poll: 50 women making an impact in the visual arts sectorRecognising 50 Australian women leading the visual arts sector today. 2025 International Booker Prize shortlist announcedWhich six books are in the running for the prize?
Former Ambulance Station proves successful regional model as creative hub

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

Eastern Riverina Arts (NSW) has transformed Wagga Wagga’s historic Ambulance Station into a bold new model for regional creativity, and the results are proving that it is a model for the future of regional arts connectivity. Since opening in 2023, The Station Creative Workspace – or The Station as it is known – has welcomed more than 3000 visitors, and hosted over 10 exhibitions, 30 events and 200-plus workspace bookings.
Textile-based artworks unfurl narratives of diversity in Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney is the perfect setting to view artworks inspired by plants and memories, especially when considered in terms of how they inform our connections with place and culture.
New Indigenous Literacy program kicks off

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

A new workshop has been launched in Sydney to bolster Indigenous literacy. The first participants were from remote Communities in the Northern Territory, who travelled interstate for the inaugural program. The Talent Pathways Program is an initiative of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), and has been supported by Lendlease’s Workplaces with Impact Grant.
Poll: 50 women making an impact in the visual arts sector

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

As the honour lists roll around each year, I always bemoan the lack of inclusions from the visual arts sector, whether that be practising artists or arts professionals. The level of commitment and contribution should be greater recognised.
Rethinking the medium of paper as a bold contemporary frontier

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

Now in its 13th year, the biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award promotes excellence and innovation in the field of art on paper while supporting and encouraging artists who specialise in this medium.
Exhibition review: Tender, Ngununggula

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

Tender is Ngununggula’s third exhibition funded by its Artist’s Circle Patron Program, in a commitment to showcasing the work of living Australian women artists. It has been a move to ensure that women artists were represented in the regional gallery’s annual programming, and alternates year-on-year between a group exhibition and solo presentation. For 2025, Tender brings together seven painters, who have an amazing synergy despite stylistic differences and career stages.
Australia Pavilion opens at World Expo 2025 Osaka

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

When it was first announced that Australia’s Pavilion at World Expo 2025 Osaka was going to be shaped like a gumnut, it was received with mixed feelings. But the kitschy idea has been pulled off by architecture and design practice Buchan – indeed, it is spectacular. The Pavilion opened last weekend, Sunday 13 April, and is now welcoming visitors. The Pavilion is wrapped in a pleated, tensile fabric that creates a kind of canvas awning by day, and a project screen for colourful activation by night.
$800,000 to Arts and Disability Network to drive change

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

Creative Australia has announced that it will invest $800,000 over four years (2025-2028) to support Arts and Disability Network Australia (ADNA), a newly established group led by disability arts organisations to “promote a more connected, equitable future for the arts and creative industries”. ADNA takes a national view, and brings together the knowledge, lived experience, expertise and leadership of disability organisations.
When just $500 can matter: new initiative for emerging arts philanthropists

1 week ago | artshub.com.au | Gina Fairley

When we think of philanthropy, it is usually big bucks territory and swanky donor parties. But giving is a broad and nuanced aspect of art funding – and it is not just for the old or for those with deep pockets. A new initiative by the Biennale of Sydney is testament to a shift in thinking around philanthropy. ArtSeen has been designed for emerging arts supporters, and to foster their ongoing – and deeper connections – with artists and their communities.