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Sydney Biennale 2026: politics is everywhere – but with nuance, beauty and heart

The festival became a political flashpoint well before the program reveal – but the featured works focus not on spectacle and slogan but on a polyphony of voices singing their own songs

The Guardian - AU · Mar 12

Abdul Abdullah: ‘People made assumptions about who I was and what I stand for because of my name’

The Archibald packing room prize-winning artist on belonging, outrage and feeling ‘too boxing gym for art school’

The Guardian - AU · May 30, 2025

Archibald Packing Room Prize goes to Abdul Abdullah for Jason Phu portrait, among broader set of bold and deeply personal works

More than 50 years ago, when I was a junior curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of NSW, I had the daunting experience of hanging the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.

The Conversation · May 2, 2025

Ramsay art prize 2023: Ida Sophia wins $100,000 for ‘deeply emotive’ video work

The acquisitive award is Australia’s richest art prize for artists under 40, with the finalists exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia until August

The Guardian - AU · May 26, 2023

From joyous celebration to the depths of grief: the new orthodoxy of the Archibald prize is there is no orthodoxy

About 50 years ago an unknown artist entered a portrait of the artist Russell Drysdale in the Archibald Prize. They had painted the artist as a craggy head, emerging from the landscape. The gallery trustees, who knew Drysdale well, loved it – but it was never hung. In their collective…

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2023

Brothers Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Abdul Abdullah explore Australian Muslim identity and interrogate colonialism in Land Abounds exhibition

Abdul Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah are very different artists who draw inspiration from their shared experience – but when they exhibit together, their work becomes a conversation.

ABC News · Jul 2, 2022

At Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands new regional gallery, audiences come face-to-face with uneasy contemporary art

Review: Land Abounds, Ngununggula

The Conversation · Jun 21, 2022

From gum trees to cities to sweeping deserts: how 125 years of the Wynne Prize traces Australia's shifting relationship to our landscape

It is fair to say that Richard Wynne, who died in 1895, would not recognise many recent entries in the art prize that he endowed with £1,000 to reward a “landscape painting of Australian scenery”.

The Conversation · May 12, 2022