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The Art Gallery of NSW has transformed into a space to cook, play, do laundry and linger

Children’s screams echo off concrete walls as they navigate bright-painted monkey bars. Families huddle around a sausage sizzle. Teenagers lounge on borrowed towels near a palm grove. Washing machines hum quietly in the corner.

The Conversation · Oct 26, 2025

The National 4: major survey of contemporary Australian art invites a closer look

Now open across four of Sydney’s major art venues, the biennial exhibition seeks to ‘broaden the idea of what Australian art is’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 1, 2023

'I can't think of a more timely painting': Blak Douglas’s Moby Dickens is a deserving winner of the 2022 Archibald Prize

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…

The Conversation · May 13, 2022