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What’s cooking in the Print Kitchen?

Print Kitchen will play with the connection between printmaking and food-making, presented underneath the spectacularly beautiful stained glass ceiling of the NGV Great Hall for the duration of the Melbourne Art Book Fair. In the lead up to the event, we chat with the multi-talented creative behind the concept – Artek Halpern-Laurence.

Material and form fuse for Paper & Clay

Paper & Clay is an exhibition at Arthouse Gallery that brings together 29 Australian artists to explore glazing, inscribing, hand-building and throwing alongside the playful curves of Huggy furniture.

Bruce Slorach puts a microscope on native Australian flora

Celebrated Sydney artist Bruce Slorach marks a milestone in his career with Native Deities, an exhibition showcasing his latest series of drawings and paintings, petite tapestries, and three of his acclaimed hand-knotted silk and wool wall hangings.

The best art market in Sydney? Cut N Polish

In car boot style art fair, Cut N Polish provides visitors and collectors with the opportunity to meet artists, support their practises and purchase works in a ‘cash and carry’ model with all proceeds going straight to the artists themselves.

A lesson in community building through design

What is it that makes a hotel feel authentically embedded in its place? Habitus editor Aleesha Callahan recently stayed at Ace Hotel Sydney to get a first-hand experience into the global phenomenon that has cracked the code on ‘cool’.

Totemic forms

Bold and uncompromising, these pieces are where art and design meet. Strong, experimental forms make this selection of furniture a unique expression of Australian design.