The exhibition Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time was seen by 250,000 people in Venice. It returns to Australia to open at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in April 2016, and in Sydney in August.

The Biennale Channel covers the opening of the new Australia Pavilion and its inaugural artist and exhibit: Wrong Way Time by Fiona Hall. This video incudes an interview with the Curator Linda Michael and artist Fiona Hall at the Australia Pavilion, Giardini Venice.  Published by Piper Press - buy the Wrong Way Time book here. Page Image: Kathryn Franco

Gregory O’Brien has been announced as the winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction in New Zealand. His recent writing includes Euan Macleod: The Painter in the Painting (Euan Macleod is a New Zealand born artist based in Sydney), and he was a central character in Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific where he acted as a co-ordinator, artist, editor and writer for an amazing artists’ journey and accompanying book about a remote and rarely visited region at the heart of one of the world’s great ocean wilderness areas. The vast Kermadec region, between New Zealand...

Congratulations to Del Kathryn Barton on winning the 2013 Archibald Prize, which was announced by the Art Gallery of New South Wales like this...

Around 1840 this child’s shoe was concealed in our house following the death of three children. Placed there by someone who believed it would protect the family, it remained in place for 170 years until discovered by Nick White who retains it as a keepsake that connects him with the house. Below Nick is photographed in the attic with the shoe for a Herald article.

The remote Kermadec Islands lie in the heart of one of the world’s great ocean wilderness areas. The 620,000-square kilometre Kermadec region, located between New Zealand and Tonga, is home to whales and turtles, sharks, seabirds, fish, and deep-sea marine life. It also contains underwater volcanoes and a deep-sea trench, making the islands a hotspot for some of the most geologically active and biologically unusual features on the planet. With so many environmental riches, the Kermadecs are an area worthy of our protective stewardship. In May 2011, the Pew Environment Group’s Global Ocean Legacy campaign organized an artists’ voyage to...