Latest news: Arts

The ACT Government has awarded more than $350,000 to Canberra creatives to develop and promote their work.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week: Winners of the People’s Choice Awards for portrait prizes are announced, and a documentary offers an intimate insight into the aftermath of China’s one-child policy.

CW Time Out editor Jessica Cordwell brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week: the National Gallery of Australia hosts a renowned contemporary artist and a concert by candlelight.

Art and nature go hand in hand, encouraging us to take the time to appreciate the small, beautiful things that are often missed in day-to-day life. The finest of the two is combined in the biennial Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Australia’s most prestigious natural artwork competition. This year’s winners and highly commended works are on display at the National Archives of Australia until 13 November.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week: Aussie icons Regurgitator come to the National Film and Sound Archive, and the art trail returns.

In a small shaky room of an inner Sydney house, one of Australia’s greatest anthems was born. Iva Davies wrote Great Southern Land between the bustle of busses passing by and planes overhead, having to wear headphones to hear himself work. Now, 40 years after its release, the song has been further immortalised as the title of the new permanent gallery at the National Museum of Australia.

Canberrans are invited to immerse themselves in a different kind of music experience at Ainslie Arts Centre this Friday and Saturday evenings, 23-24 September. Mini Festival Ainslie Salon: On Location showcases the art of field recording, sound art, and electronic music.

Canberra could become the first city in the world to design with plastic, Candice Addicoat believes. She turns polyethylene into art.

The ninth annual DESIGN Canberra Festival has unveiled its most ambitious program to date, featuring over 200 events to celebrate the nation's capital as a global city of design, spanning two weeks from 2 to 20 November.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlight this week: a local film heads to an international film festival and and alternate performing arts space holds an open day.

An exhibition nearly five years in the making, the NGA's 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, opened 26 March.

Part two of a planned trilogy, Canberran documentary filmmaker Jennifer Peedom’s latest release, 'River', is something to behold.

Artworks depicting some of Britain’s most influential figures are in Canberra as part of the NPG's new exhibition, Shakespeare to Winehouse.

Van Gogh Alive, an immersive, sensory experience with projections of gorgeous art, opened in Canberra to great fanfare on Friday 4 March.

Social photos at the Van Gogh Alive opening night, The Grand Pavilion, National Triangle at Parkes Place Lawns. Photos: Denholm Samaras.

Sydney artist Chrissie Lloyd’s new exhibition, Flinders Ranges to Birdsville, depicts some of Australia’s most mesmerising rural landscapes in an expressive contemporary realist style.