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Ballarat Indigenous arts collective Pitcha Makin Fellas will return to Melbourne's White Night festival for 2017 and then continue on appear at the Ballarat event, the first White Night in regional Victoria.
Topics: painting, visual-art, ballarat-3350, melbourne-3000
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The Ballarat Indigenous arts collective's politically charged works tackle "black face" and the hundreds of nations hidden in Australia's history.
Topics: visual-art, painting, community-and-multicultural-festivals, ballarat-3350, melbourne-3000
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Adelaide-based Ellie Kammer's art work is confronting, graphic and bold — just what she needs to stimulate a conversation about her condition.
Topics: endometriosis, womens-health, painting, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThere is an entire corner dedicated to One Nation senator Pauline Hanson's image at this year's Bald Archy Prize show — the satirical art prize that every year showcases an ever-revolving array of faces and stories to lampoon.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, painting, visual-art, federal-government, federal-parliament, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The "Bald Archies", an art show aimed at poking fun at politicians and those in the public eye, is back on show in Canberra for 2017.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, government-and-politics, painting, canberra-2600, australia, act
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| UpdatedAn exhibition in Melbourne displays the artwork of 145 Indigenous men and women who are currently or have previously served in the Victorian prison system.
Topics: painting, visual-art, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Art Gallery of Western Australia continues to put the best of the state's year 12 artwork on show, much to the delight of past students.
Topics: visual-art, art-and-design, secondary-schools, library-museum-and-gallery, painting, perth-6000
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| UpdatedWill Clarke's family hopes he can gain independence by starting a company which reconditions old cricket bats.
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The NSW Government is to list the former Lake Macquarie home of Australian artist Sir William Dobell on its heritage register.
Topics: painting, contemporary-art, community-organisations, wangi-wangi-2267
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| UpdatedFormer elite downhill ski racer and track cyclist Sophie Cape says two invasive surgeries, including one to widen the arteries connected to the legs, left her permanently scarred as she battled to continue training.
Topics: visual-art, painting, sport, cycling, human-interest, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, canberra-2600
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One of the world's most expensive and divisive artworks returns home to the National Gallery of Australia, after its first overseas trip in almost 20 years.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, painting, library-museum-and-gallery, contemporary-art, visual-art, art-history, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedWhen artist Sven Roehrs asked his mother's neighbour, Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, to sit for a portrait, he did not know he would be painting the next Australian of the Year.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, painting, offbeat, australia-day, qld, australia
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The extraordinary and varied career of Frank Norton is at the heart of a new exhibition in Fremantle.
Topics: history, world-war-2, painting, library-museum-and-gallery, people, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe mother of executed Bali Nine drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran wants her son's artwork to travel the world as a powerful anti-death penalty message.
Topics: visual-art, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, painting, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, asia, australia, indonesia
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| UpdatedAn Adelaide artist celebrates the birth of his twins by painting a portrait which is then broken up and offered to thousands.
Topics: painting, parenting, offbeat, internet-culture, human-interest, adelaide-5000, united-states
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| UpdatedA young Darwin-based artist turns to painting swirling and colourful Dreaming stories onto handbags as part of a bid to create "wearable art" sold independently from art dealers.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fashion, visual-art, painting, youth, people, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAlmost every interview is interesting in its own way, 7.30 host Leigh Sales says. From Malcolm Turnbull to Renee Zellweger and Neil Finn, she counts down her 10 most memorable interviews of 2016.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, actor, music, popular-culture, government-and-politics, federal-elections, painting, australian-football-league, disabilities, paralympics, australia
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An Aboriginal painting by artist Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, which disappeared in 1981, has been found hanging in an NT government office.
Topics: contemporary-art, aboriginal, painting, papunya-0872, nt, darwin-0800
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Jenny Kee is a pioneer of Australian fashion design who has swapped success for a more spiritual path, after suffering a series of grave setbacks in her life.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, popular-culture, visual-art, painting, family-and-children, marriage, parenting, grief, immigration, multiculturalism, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, australia, united-kingdom, england, thailand
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Shanshan Ai in front of her painting
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Ever wanted to quit your job, move across the world and start a new life? Shanshan Ai has done just that, leaving Beijing for Hobart to study art.
Topics: contemporary-art, painting, people, human-interest, hobart-7000, china
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| UpdatedThe painter Donald Friend was lauded by his admirers as a "legendary figure". But he could just as easily be described as Australia's most celebrated paedophile.
Topics: contemporary-art, painting, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, child-abuse, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murwillumbah-2484