Visual Art

Cost-of-living pressures, rising material costs, emerging AI, and increasingly fickle social media algorithms are putting extra pressure on creative types. So how are these artists making things work? 

As Chris Vines battles the side effects of surviving cancer three times, including losing vision in his left eye, the sketch artist is using his lifelong passion to bring joy to others.

Years of chemotherapy has damaged Chris's kidneys and impaired his vision, but creating art helps him cope.

The craft of sign painting has taken a hit in the digital era but painters like Dave Johnson say computers cannot replicate the charm of hand-produced pieces.

Comic artist Jo Waite has spent her adult life renting and squatting in Melbourne's inner suburbs, watching gentrification unfold in real time. Now, she is drawing her old homes one by one — but the beauty of the grand homes hides the reality of life inside them for tenants in decades past.

The Picasso estate has contacted Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art to express its regret about artist Kirsha Kaechele's faked Picasso artworks, but said it considers the matter to be now closed. 

Artist Natasha Walsh has enlisted major Australian creatives, from singer Montaigne to writer Bri Lee, to re-imagine major works of art history and empower the women at their centre.

After Mount Gambier's Beth Kay tried her hand at shooting, she set her sights on melding the sport into her work — and making her mark as an abstract artist.

This year's NAIDOC theme is Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud. Late artist Destiny Deacon lived that ethos.

These artists were winning some of the country's most prestigious art prizes, but had no professional space to hone their craft — until now.

A young Indigenous artist will have her work circulated in wallets around the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee.

Art lovers visiting the National Gallery of Australia can now smell the inspiration behind one of its new exhibitions thanks to a line of scented candles.

Most of us find it hard to stomach seeing priceless artworks vandalised. But when we look back at the long history of attacking art in the name of protest, we seem to become far more lenient.

Celebrated 19th-century Post-Impressionist French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin is one of the world's most famous artists, but his works have been cast in a new light ever since troubling allegations of sex crimes emerged.

Thomas Taylor was just 23 years old when he landed his first professional commission to illustrate the first Harry Potter book cover. It's now sold at auction for $2.8 million.

The paper drop cloths Robert Moore used to create art could easily have ended up in the bin if not for a painstaking process that has resulted in somewhat wearable and usable items.

The Sydney artist's children's book illustrations were detailed and realistic. But after a brush with a deadly infection, she adapted to a new painting style.    

The world's most famous classicist helps unpack the mystery behind statue penis-size and shares her theory on why so many men are obsessed with the Roman Empire.

Fry is a long-term campaigner for the sculptures to be returned and supports the British Museum displaying exact replicas made by a team of archaeologists from 3D scans of the marbles.

Centaurs can represent wisdom and knowledge. Jaq Grantford's portrait of Ed Le Brocq as a centaur tells the story of personal transformation.

On the 50th anniversary of one of Australia's worst ever natural disasters, hundreds of survivors have criticised a planned monument being built in tribute to the tragic event.

As Caitlin Foord prepares for her third Olympics, a stunning 14-metre-high mural in Wollongong celebrates her journey. The mural captures her dynamic style and features her beloved dog, Peach, inspiring young athletes to dream big.

A fisherman in Burma, a winery in France, and a wedding party in China are among the winning shots in this year's Food Photography Awards.

If you're among the majority of Australians with Facebook or Instagram accounts, your social activity on those platforms might be training Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) tools — and if you live in Australia, you can't say no.

An artist whose work captured the beauty of Sydney Harbour is being honoured two years after his death.