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The image of a girl in wheat fields at sunset adorning the silos of a regional South Australian town, and celebrating the local farming heritage, is expected to provide an economic boost.
Topics: rural-tourism, rural, street-art, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, offbeat, kimba-5641, sa, adelaide-5000
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Sean Rafferty collects fruit and vegetable cartons to use in his art installations. They're not just boxes to him - every carton tells a story about the grower and the region it comes from. Read more
Topics: fruits, vegetables, library-museum-and-gallery, visual-art, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAn exhibition at the Melbourne Science Gallery explores why humans are both attracted to and repulsed by blood — and it is not for the faint-hearted.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, visual-art, blood, melbourne-3000
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As a woman with achondroplasia or dwarfism, Debra Keenahan is used to surviving and thriving in a hostile environment. But she says what disables her is people's attitude to dwarfism.
Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, anxiety, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedThe winners of the 2017 Young Archies show "a sophisticated way of expressing an idea" well beyond their years, a judge of the Archibalds for children says.
Topics: visual-art, contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedDo you have a feeling that you're being watched? Five giant humanoids found across Brisbane might have something to do with it.
Topics: visual-art, human-interest, carnivals-and-festivals, community-and-multicultural-festivals, offbeat, brisbane-4000, south-bank-4101
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Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, community-and-society, lifestyle-and-leisure, rural, regional, australia
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| UpdatedAs tense as a Hollywood epic, and as multi-layered as Greek mythology, the Seven Sisters dreamtime story rivals some of the great narratives.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, visual-art, canberra-2600, sa, wa
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| UpdatedA playful bear cub attempts to wrestle its mother, a bedraggled eagle stares into the distance, and two seals frolic in crystal blue waters underneath Antarctic ice — the Natural History Museum announces its finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, animals, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedChris Hopewell was in New York when he caught what is now world-famous vision of the second plane flying into the World Trade Centre. Sixteen years later, he believes he's still processing what he saw that day.
Topics: terrorism, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedDarren Aronofsky, the director of the upcoming film Mother!, apologises for an advertising agency painting a portrait of star Jennifer Lawrence over a long-standing, iconic Newtown mural.
Topics: film, thriller-films, contemporary-art, local-government, visual-art, newtown-2042
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| UpdatedHere is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, community-and-society, lifestyle-and-leisure, rural, regional, australia
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Australia's art calendar is dotted with hundreds of prizes, large and small, but what do artists gain from entering?
Topics: contemporary-art, sculpture, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, awards-and-prizes, australia
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| UpdatedArtist Jack Elliott was "shooting for irony" when he set out to scan a Tasmanian tree and then reproduce it on a 3D printer that make solid objects from paper.
Topics: sculpture, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, environment, burnie-7320
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| UpdatedKyle Hughes-Odgers has painted murals around the world, but standing in a fully extended cherry picker working on 35-metre-high grain silos in the West Australian Wheatbelt town of Merredin presented a particular challenge.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, street-art, visual-art, rural-tourism, rural, wa, merredin-6415
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| UpdatedMeet the artist helping inmates pick up a paintbrush and connect with their Indigenous culture.
Topics: people, human-interest, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, visual-art, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Adelaide is poised to join cities such as New York, Berlin and Bristol this Christmas by establishing its own public art trail.
Topics: street-art, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, offbeat, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedHere is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, photography, visual-art, community-and-society, rural, regional, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous inmates reconnect with the culture through painting workshops in prison.
Topics: human-interest, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, law-crime-and-justice, crime, prisons-and-punishment, gatton-4343
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| UpdatedA multimedia artwork based on family and sport is awarded the major prize at the South Australian Living Artists Festival.
Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, adelaide-5000, sa
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An historically significant 19th Century Gippsland artwork by artist Eugene Von Guérard is set to fetch more than $1 million at auction.
Topics: art-history, painting, visual-art, rosedale-3847, sale-3850
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, visual-art, native-title, grafton-2460, baryulgil-2460, tabulam-2469
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| UpdatedBefore James Fairfax died in January, he decided to leave his estate to the public and charity. Now his art collection, one of the richest in the country, is up for grabs.
Topics: contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, house-and-home, history, community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, sydney-2000, bowral-2576, nsw
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Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, community-and-society, lifestyle-and-leisure, rural, regional, australia
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| UpdatedThe ambitious public artwork for the centre of Sydney's CBD is remodelled and is now three times the price of the original design.
Topics: contemporary-art, visual-art, local-government, urban-development-and-planning, sydney-2000