The Latest Breaking News from Karla Dickens

Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s festival scene, Rising replaced the much-loved White Night festival and the much-celebrated Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Shadow Spirit, a new exhibition as part of Melbourne’s Rising festival, explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories around death, spirits, stars and dreams

Maitland Regional Art Gallery has three major headline shows planned for 2023 among its extensive calendar of events. The Maitland gallery will show Kungka Kunpu (Strong Women) from March 4 through May 21, showcasing major contemporary works by celebrated women artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. "These women…

His painting "Moby Dickens" focuses on the Lismore floods.

In 2020, the year Vincent Namatjira was awarded the Archibald for his double portrait with Adam Goodes, I was also impressed by the painting hanging next to it, Blak Douglas’ (aka Adam Hill) Writing in the Sand. It was both passionately political and visually very clever, incorporating the speech that…

It's fifth time lucky for Sydney-based Dhungatti artist Blak Douglas (aka Adam Hill), who has become the second Indigenous Australian to win the Archibald Prize.

The unanimous decision was announced on Friday at the Art Gallery of NSW, where all finalists will be exhibited from 14 May

Artists and arts organisations like NORPA, Lismore Regional Gallery and Arts Northern Rivers are leading conversations about how to rebuild the arts – and Lismore – after the floods.

Karla Dickens's exhibition Return to Sender is the result of years spent collecting racist vintage postcards, which she reframes and subverts to tell stories of First Nations resilience.