Bundanon Trust has announced six Australian architecture firms shortlisted for the Trust’s national competition to deliver a Masterplan to enliven the 1100-hectare property in regional New South Wales with a world-class creative learning centre, visitor hub, residential quarters and a gallery to house the $37.5 million Arthur Boyd art collection.

The competition is part of the Trust’s Masterplan for the heritage-listed site, developed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, that seeks to increase visitation by more than 100 percent and secure Bundanon as a leading cultural and tourist attraction in regional Australia.

The shortlisted architecture firms are: Virginia Kerridge Architect (NSW); Kerstin Thompson Architects (VIC); Room 11 (VIC/TAS); Peter Elliot Architecture + Urban Design (VIC); Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (VIC); and Chenchow Little Architects (VIC).

The United Kingdom’s largest artist-led contemporary art fair, The Other Art Fair announced a prestigious new partnership with the world’s leading online art gallery Saatchi Art, in advance of the fair’s return to Sydney for a second edition presented from 27 – 30 October 2016. The partnership will see works presented by artists at this year’s Fair will be added to the Saatchi Art online gallery which features more than 500,000 works worldwide. More than 100 Australian artists have also been announced as selected to present work at The Other Art Fair Sydney, which will be held for the first time at Australia’s newest arts and cultural destination, ‘COMMUNE’ in Waterloo.

The 2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize – Australia’s pre-eminent national award for small sculpture – has been awarded to Sydney artist Todd Robinson. Mr. Robinson has been awarded the $15,000 acquisitive main prize for his work, Psychic Staircase, an eight-kilogram plywood staircase atop which sits an orange balloon that droops as the force of gravity appears to bear down on it.

Psychic Staircase originates from an ongoing series of balloon inspired sculptures by Mr. Robinson that explore sculptural presence, materiality and conditions of audience reception.

Mr. Robinson will be awarded the acquisitive prize money of $15,000 on Friday 14 October at the opening of the free exhibition of finalist’s art works that will be presented from 15 October until 30 October 2016 at Woollahra Council in Sydney. The winning sculpture will be a welcome addition to Council’s permanent public sculpture collection.

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presents a new exhibition of work by Isaac Julien, one of Britain’s most influential and critically acclaimed artists working today. Presented from 21 October until 19 November 2016, Isaac Julien: Refuge is a survey of the artist’s complex, poetic film and photographic installations spanning three continents and eight years, including the Australian debut of Julien’s new multi-screen installation Stones Against Diamonds (2015), a work shot inside the Icelandic Vatnajökull caves, Europe’s biggest glacier.

Julien’s new work Stones Against Diamonds (2015) will be juxtaposed with one of the artist’s most prophetic works WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007) that was shot in Sicily and which pre-dates the current global crisis on migration by a nearly a decade. Together the works explore cartographies of displacement, from the baroque to modernist architecture, from Italy, to Iceland and Brazil.

Known for pioneering multi-screen installations, Julien is one of Britain’s most influential artists working today with his cinematic and photographic works combining theoretical sophistication with visual luxury and sensuality.