TarraWarra Museum of Art today announced a major group exhibition featuring artists who work out of the nationally and internationally renowned Arts Project Australia (APA), a gallery and studio that supports artists with intellectual disabilities and which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. Presented from 30 November 2024 to 10 March 2025, Intimate Imaginaries is the first major survey of the work of APA artists in an Australian museum, highlighting the vital contemporary practices of 13 artists that have emerged from the studio over the past five decades.

Ames Yavuz, a preeminent contemporary art gallery in the Asia Pacific, has today announced two solo exhibitions of new works by New Zealand-born, Vienna-based artist André Hemer and renowned Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie, opening at their neighbouring Surry Hills galleries in Sydney.

Internationally recognised artist André Hemer will present a series of new paintings and video works at the Reservoir Street gallery from 10 October – 9 November. Working at the forefront of the artistic possibilities arising from digital technology, Hemer unveils new paintings and video work in his solo exhibition ‘Techno Dreaming’.

Interdisciplinary artist Reko Rennie presents ‘Urban Rite’ at the Commonwealth Street space from 17 October – 9 November. Featuring a suite of new abstract figurative paintings that see a fresh direction for the artist, the exhibition expands upon Rennie’s pursuits into reclaiming Indigenous ownership over space and place within the urban landscape.

Bell Shakespeare has announced its 2025 Season, as it prepares to celebrate the company’s 35th anniversary next year. For the first time in Australia in nearly 30 years, the company stages Shakespeare’s political epic Coriolanus in the intimate surrounds of The Neilson Nutshell in Sydney and the Fairfax Studio in Melbourne. Acclaimed director Marion Potts returns to Bell Shakespeare for the first time in 15 years at the helm of a new production of Henry 5. Rounding out the Season, Artistic Director Peter Evans’ raw 2023 production of Romeo & Juliet will tour across the country to metropolitan and regional centres for the annual national tour.

Sydney Dance Company and Carriageworks have announced the Australian dance makers commissioned to create world premiere performances for New Breed 2024, generously supported by The Balnaves Foundation.

Presenting innovative vision and a rich diversity of choreographic ideas, rising dance makers Amber McCartney, Dean Elliott, Piran Scott, and Siobhan McKenna will debut new works, performed by members of Sydney Dance Company, at Carriageworks from 4-14 December 2024, offering a glimpse into the future of Australian dance.