The annual Swell Sculpture Festival is back on the Gold Coast and it's helping launch the careers of artists with disabilities.
Unlivable, freezing and haunted: This artist made her studio in a house too derelict to rent
Tai Snaith found unlikely inspiration for her current exhibition, Strong Hold, when she took up residence in a derelict worker's cottage in Fitzroy North.
Photo shows A woman wearing yellow stands in front of a paintingAn Australian gallery acquired this painting in the 50s. They only recently discovered its secret
When conservators at the National Gallery of Victoria X-rayed a 17th-century artwork, they discovered a strange swirl in the right-hand corner. A little investigation ultimately revealed a hidden painting.
Photo shows A 17th-century classical painting, showing a woman, arms outstretched, and a mostly naked man lying in front of her.More than 100 firefighters tackle blaze at Somerset House in London
Around 125 firefighters tackled a blaze in the roo of the historic Somerset House in London. Major art collections, including work by Manet, van Gogh ad Cezanne were undamaged in the blaze.
Photo shows Two people watching on as a firehouse is sprayed at a building from a crane.Has Video Duration: 28 seconds.Breathtaking artworks installed along Sydney's new metro line
The head-turning artworks follow the lead of subway systems overseas that have pioneered some incredible underground art.
Photo shows Underground Artworks, Sydney Metro Line: Two people sit in a tunnel lit up in multicoloured light.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds.Hatched exhibition helps emerging artists find their place in the world
Emerging artist Kasia Kolikow was born with one hand. She's using art to help her find her place in the world and is one of 22 graduate artists on display at a national exhibition.
Photo shows Young woman with long hair and cream jumper standing next to artwork with pale textileThe art installations along Sydney's new metro line
The artworks follow the lead of subway systems overseas that have pioneered underground art.
Photo shows Underground Artworks, Sydney Metro Line: Two people sit in a tunnel lit up in multicoloured light.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds.Narelle spent hundreds of hours under South Australian jetties, waiting for the perfect photo
Acclaimed Australian photographer Narelle Autio has spent decades creating powerful underwater images. In her latest series she captures the effervescent immersion of jetty jumpers, with mesmerising results.
Photo shows Photographer Narelle Autio stands on a beach on a moody winter's day, holding her camera near her face ready to photographThe man behind The Dictionary of Lost Words and Claudia Karvan's return to stage comes back to Sydney
Award-winning actor, writer and director Mitchell Butel will leave State Theatre Company South Australia to join Sydney Theatre Company at the end of the year.
Photo shows Mitchell Butel, a 54-year-old man, wearing a bright, multicoloured jumper, smiles as he leans forward in a chair, hands clasped.Actor Jack Thompson reflects on his teenage outback 'adventure that lasted me my life'
He's famous for roles in some of Australia's finest movies, from Breaker Morant to Wake in Fright. But it was the year he spent in the territory outback as a teenager that Jack Thompson says had an impact that has "lasted me my life".
Photo shows A close-up shot of an older man with a long white beard.Indigenous Elder wins $100,000 art prize for three-metre-tall painting of the Spinifex Lands
The winners of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, worth a total of $190,000 have been announced, including prizes for an emerging artist and multimedia work.
Photo shows Noli Rictor, an Indigenous Elder with a white beard, wearing a hat, stands smiling in front of a red painting.Why I'm proud to join the growing group of 'no show' comics pulling the plug on their festival shows
Burnt out and struggling ahead of MICF, Scout Boxall did the unthinkable and cancelled their season. Here's why many comics are doing the exact same thing.
Photo shows A person in a colourful boilersuit gtalks into a microphone in the spotlight of a darkened stage.We asked you to capture Costa's bearded beauty – and here are our favourite artworks
ABC Radio Brisbane asked its listeners to enter portraits of Costa Georgiadis for this year's Bradley. There were so many masterpieces he was relieved he wasn't a judge.
Photo shows A painting of a bearded man on woodIllness ended this Australian swimmer's career. Now she's at the Olympics as an artist
Clementine Stoney Maconachie made her Olympic debut in the pool at the Sydney 2000 Games. More than two decades later, she's in Paris as an Olympian Artist.
Photo shows A tall blonde woman in a beige wrap dress surrounded by artworks: blue stacked totems and a brass wall hanging behind herArt brings colour and healing to town left ashen grey amid bushfire trauma
How do you make sense of natural disasters and trauma? This remote community uses art and creative expression as a form of therapy to support their healing and recovery.
Photo shows Two women with short gray hair laughing together in an art gallery.Mallacoota artists find solace and community after the bushfires.
Since the devastating 2019 bushfires, Mallacoota's art gallery has transformed into a space of connection, creation and healing.
Has Video Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds.Art mystery at the heart of belated recognition for woman who married into the Bunnings hardware empire
Betty Bunning, who painted under the name Elizabeth Blair Barber, was a prolific WA artist whose brilliance was largely overlooked at the time — and it's led to a search for answers about eight mystery portraits.
Photo shows Bl;ack and white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a couch, the man's arm extended along the back of it.'Just because you have a disability doesn't mean the only art you can do is therapy': Thom Roberts is a four-time Archibald finalist
After decades of being locked out of the art world, Thom Roberts feels "happy and beautiful" seeing his work displayed in the Archibald and Sulman prizes.
Photo shows The artist wears a grey jumper covered in paint, and has save brown and grey hair. He stands smiling in AGNSW next to paintingsHis 'Looney Tunes Jesus' was pulled from a major art prize, but there's more to artist Philjames
His recent painting may have caused offence to some of Sydney's Christian community, but Philjames explains how his artistic process is one of care and a deep fascination with iconography.
Photo shows A biblical painting of Jesus Christ in which various characters have been replaces with cartoon charactersFriends with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome helping others to deal with the little understood but painful condition
Evelyn Froend has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which means she wakes every day in chronic pain. She needs to wear braces on many of her joints just to stop them dislocating, but her condition is not well understood by the medical system.
Photo shows A woman gives a subtle smile to the camera from inside a home, with art supplies in the background. She has a neck brace.Ellen van Neerven has won a stack of awards for their poetry. But they're an 'apprentice' in theatre
Ellen van Neerven didn't grow up watching theatre. Now, after a prize-winning career as a poet and author, they premiere their debut play, Swim.
Photo shows A non-binary Indigenous person, the actor Dani Sib, in a swimming costume, medal around their neck and hand to chest, in a play