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Detail from Ryan Presley's mural 'Paradise Won'
Detail from Ryan Presley's mural 'Paradise Won'
Detail from Ryan Presley's mural 'Paradise Won'
Detail from Ryan Presley's mural 'Paradise Won'

Enlighten 2025

28 February – 10 March 2025
Enlighten Festival is back and will once again light up the nation’s capital over 11 days of culture and creativity.

M'lady Ikebana, 2015 Joan Ross
M'lady Ikebana, 2015 Joan Ross
M'lady Ikebana, 2015 Joan Ross
M'lady Ikebana, 2015 Joan Ross

Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams

24 August 2024 – 27 April 2025
In a practice that spans collage, printmaking, sculpture and video animation, Ross probes the ongoing consequences of colonisation in Australia with wit and wry critique.

Rachel
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Deborah Mailman

The Portraits

Famous to notorious, remarkable to glorious.

The Dance - David McAllister 2016 Peter Brew-Bevan
The Dance - David McAllister 2016 Peter Brew-Bevan
The Dance - David McAllister 2016 Peter Brew-Bevan
The Dance - David McAllister 2016 Peter Brew-Bevan

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Judith Wright with Barbara Blackman
Ray Lawler
Guy Warren
Lowitja O'Donoghue

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