Behind the Lines 2025: 'Are We Rolling?' celebrates the year's best political cartoons.
Featuring established and emerging cartoonists from across Australia, this exhibition highlights the significant contribution they make to cultural and political debates through witty, insightful and often poignant satirical drawings.
This year, the Behind the Lines theme is the cinema, acknowledging that, like some of your favourite movies, 2025 has been full of thrills and spills, romance and heartbreak, with plenty of unexpected plot twists. Australia's cartoonists and illustrators have tackled many of the issues that made news, including the federal election, the cost of living, energy policy, interest rates, housing security, the economy, climate change and stories from overseas.
The exhibition is free.
Come and enjoy a weekend of everything psychic, spiritual and wellbeing.
Browse the beautiful stalls displaying crystals, handcrafted jewellery, handcrafted candles, clothing, scents, Wicca and Witchcraft items. Book in for a reading from some of the best psychics and mediums in Australia or receive a wax art reading, aura reading, spirit drawing, reiki healing and so much more.
Take a drive through the story of an Australian icon in 'Rear vision: the Holden collection' at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra.
Trace Holden's journey from a 19th-century saddlery to 'Australia's Own Car' and its lasting impact on the nation's economy, industry and identity.
Explore archival records, rare artefacts, drawings and images that reveal the people, innovations and decisions behind General Motors-Holden.
Developed by the State Library of South Australia in partnership with Adelaide University, the exhibition has been expanded by National Archives of Australia with records from the national archival collection.
From wartime production to the fight for equal pay, these stories highlight how Holden helped shape modern Australia.
This free exhibition is open daily, with daily gallery talks for visitors keen to discover the stories under the hood.
Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) is renowned for her sculptural assemblages that reveal the beauty of discarded objects. Inspired by nature, Gascoigne's art reflects both the extremes and nuances of the Australian landscape.
Rosalie Gascoigne celebrates one of Australia's most distinctive and influential artists. Known for her evocative use of found materials and poetic reinterpretations of the landscape, Gascoigne transformed everyday objects into powerful assemblages that resonate with memory and place.
Drawing inspiration from the Kamberri/Canberra region, Gascoigne reimagined objects such as retro-reflective road signs, soft drink bottle crates, feathers and weathered wood into lyrical compositions that merge wordplay, abstraction and emotional resonance.
Bespoke Utopia brings together leading Canberra artists whose practices embrace the principles of slow design, offering an alternative to the norms of post-capitalist production. Showcasing the depth and diversity of the region's art and design community, the exhibition highlights creative practices that celebrate care, craftsmanship and long-term thinking.
In today's post-capitalist economy, contemporary design often functions as a driver of overconsumption. Much of popular design is classified as ephemeral, disposable or temporal, categories that reflect the broader issue of planned obsolescence. These approaches carry significant ethical and environmental implications, particularly in the face of accelerating climate change. Bespoke Utopia invites audiences to critically consider how these design practices shape our world and to reflect on their long-term consequences.
The artists featured in this exhibition prioritise thoughtful, responsible making over rapid, large-scale manufacturing. Drawing on traditions of craftsmanship and handmade processes, their work positions slow design as both a philosophy and a form of creative activism, one that contributes to broader cultural shifts towards environmental and social sustainability. Through sustained engagement with materials, form and process, the exhibition highlights how deliberate, mindful design can foster more enduring and environmentally conscious ways of living.
Canberra Art Biennial is a biennial contemporary public art festival that engages the stories and aesthetics of Canberra's designed landscape through site-specific artworks and events. The festival champions diverse and accessible approaches to public art, presenting commissioned artworks by leading Australian and international artists as well as promising emerging artists, many of whom are creating public art or working with new media, scales and sites for the first time.
Founded by Dr Neil Hobbs, the festival was born from Neil's research into how temporary public art interventions transform space. Now, the festival invites artists to bring their ideas into dialogue with the capital's designed landscape, presenting free contemporary art in the places we gather day-to-day.
The 6th edition of the Canberra Art Biennial features newly commissioned artworks, along with exhibitions and re-stagings of preexisting artworks, from over 50 Australian and international artists and curators. Explore the program over 7 weeks, across 20 festival sites.
Canberra Art Biennial acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which their festival operates, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. They pay their respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Hands On Studio's latest exhibition explores the many faces of admiration through intimate sculptural portraits of celebrities and everyday heroes. From Katy Perry and Sir David Attenborough to mothers, carers, and support workers, the exhibition celebrates the people whose inspiration, kindness, and resilience shape your lives.
A contemporary art exhibition that uncovers personal experiences of Aboriginal Vietnam Veterans from South Australia, who have their stories interpreted and creatively shared by Aboriginal artists.
Artworks:
Sandra Saunders, Bundjalung Man's Journey, 2019, painting: acrylic, paper, and found objects on canvas, 122 x 160cm, AWM2023.461.1.1
Hayley Millar-Baker, Untitled 1 (Still Life of a Ramindjeri Elder), 2019, inkjet on cotton rag, 40 x 40cm, AWM2023.462.1
'Bespoke Utopia' presents Canberra artists whose practices embrace the principles of slow design, grounded in care, material knowledge and long-term thinking. Linking global conversations around sustainable design with Canberra's rich craft history, the exhibition invites audiences to consider how design shapes everyday life and how thoughtful creative practices can challenge fast, disposable production models.
Image details: Gavin Bradstreet, Manscape 01, 2026. Image courtesy of the artist.
Inspired by memory, movement and the beauty found in everyday moments, Tamara's expressive works invite viewers into richly layered landscapes of colour, emotion and imagination, found so effortlessly in the world around us.
Exhibition now showing in Howard Lounge at Hyatt Hotel Canberra - A Park Hyatt Hotel.
Celebrate the 125-year anniversary of Australia's Federation through significant paintings, objects, and documents on display.
125 Years of Federation: Our Parliament and its Presiding Officers includes portraits commemorating important 'firsts' in parliamentary representation and exhibits highlighting the work of Australia's Parliament today. This display also includes 'The Big Picture' by Tom Roberts, depicting the first Opening of Parliament.
Reflect on the moments in the movement to federate the six British colonies, the 1901 celebrations following Federation, and key milestones in Australian parliamentary leadership.
