The latest combined show at Sullivan + Strumpf gallery combines varied themes, mediums and techniques.

Join the conversation as Habitus Deputy Editor, Nicky Lobo, talks themes and trends from Milan 2013.

Directed, curated, managed and funded by FORM, Pieces of Gutharraguda is an exhibition that charts a journey around Shark Bay through the images, objects and personal history of 86-year-old Malgana maker Jimmy Poland.

The latest show from critically acclaimed New Zealand Dance company Mau has received a stellar reception around the world for its artistic ambition and political resonance. Habitusliving converses with choreographer Lemi Ponifasio to learn more about his inspiration and motivation.

‘Big Game Hunting’ is the first survey of Fiona Hall’s work in Melbourne since 1994, and also marks the Australian premiere of Fall Prey, an installation that Hall created for the prestigious world art event dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany in 2012.

Kaldor Public Art Projects has unveiled a comprehensive and thought­‐provoking public program of events to support its most ambitious project in history, the major international contemporary art exhibition ’13 Rooms’.

In the midst of the design frenzy that is MIlan, the Habitus team is scouring the city for the best of 2013. We bring you a selection of the highlights so far.

A curated group exhibition by Gallery Funaki Director, Katie Scott, explores the wide space between the hand made and the mass manufactured.

A Melbourne drawing class caters for drinkers with a drawing problem. Alicia Sciberras reports.

Public Sydney reveals a raft of hidden stories, fascinating people and obscure objects discovered in central Sydney, including flair bartenders from Hyde Park, corporate ping pong players at Darling Quarter, an historic one-tonne canon and a handmade cedar coffin from one of our city’s oldest cemeteries.

Natalya Hughes latest collection of work deconstructs, reconfigures and rewrites figurative images to form partially abstracted and highly patterned psychological worlds. Working broadly across painting, print, animation and installation, Hughes conflates the boundaries between beauty and the grotesque, realism and abstraction.

For our final installment in our Saturday in Design redux series we revisit scenes from the city where it all started, and where this year SID is set to become even bigger and more exciting!

The Hours, aMBUSH Gallery and Ironlak present an exhibition of new paintings and mural installation by Beastman and Phibs.

Positioning itself as a design hub for the region, Singapore has been a perfect venue at which to host Saturday in Design, and both instances of the event to date have been hugely successfull.

A world-class exhibition featuring the designs of Japan’s most influential architects, including Kengo Kuma, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Kenzo Tange, SANAA, and many more.

Matthew de Moiser’s latest series of two-dimensional works conflate the language of hard-edged abstraction and the formal qualities of modernist architecture with a quintessentially suburban, Australian ‘feel’.

Over the past few years Melbourne has hosted some extraordinarily creative and exciting Saturday in Designs. For the second SID Redux installment we revisit some of the Melbournian highlights.

In the first instalment of our SiD Redux series we take you on a visual journey through the moments that made Brisbane Indesign such a success.

Grimshaw Architects have opened Equation, the Practice’s first exhibition staged in Asia, exploring how the natural environment provides inspiration for innovative architectural projects around the world.

Andrew Simpson shares his vision for his fourth Interpretations exhibition with Elana Castle.

Art Month Sydney 2013 promises the most creative and innovative program yet with over 300 exhibiting artists, 200 art events and 100 art spaces across Sydney.

Archibald Prize winner and celebrated Australian artist Geoff Dyer will exhibit a new body of work at MiCK Gallery, Sydney’s renowned contemporary art space, from 5th March – 7th April 2013.

A collaboration between JamFactory and the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, WOOD: art design architecture, is an exhibition exploring innovative and outstanding uses of wood in contemporary Australian art, design and architecture.

The rapid approach of the International Furniture Fair Singapore (March 9-12) means that SingaPlural also looms on the horizon.

Leading lights of the Asian-Australian art world will headline a ground-breaking, one-off show at Sydney Town Hall until 23 February.

Sydney based photographer, Andrew Goldie, spent two years using coastal locations from Watsons Bay to Botany Bay in Sydney’s east to create a stunning series.

The National Art School Gallery in association with the Australian War Memorial (AWM) presents the exhibition Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan, open to the public on 21 February 2013.

The winners of this year’s The Edge awards were announced at the opening of the Australian International Furniture Fair.

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of jewellery Designer Stefano Canturi’s work, the first exhibition of his drawings, paintings and small scale sculpture will be presented across Australia and internationally.

This exhibition surveys the work of young artists associated with Canberra, exploring the cultural and contextual parameters influencing not only what they design and produce, but why. Meredith Hinchliffe reports.

Daine Singer in Melbourne presents a collection of work by Sean Bailey, thematically centred around transformation, renewal, decay and transcendence.

Elana Castle discovers an exciting, multi-dimensional collaboration between Melbourne based Mr Kitly and Japanese architecture and design group Torafu Architects.

As Art Stage Singapore celebrates its third year, visitors can expect to experience an altogether new sense of arrival thanks to a collaboration with Parisian / Singaporean architecture firm WY-TO.

The upcoming exhibition at the Melbourne gallery showcases the contemplative, introspective work of Korean artist Sung Soo Park.

Shalini Ganendra Fine Art @ Gallery Residence (SGFA) presents the work of five award-winning mid-career Malaysian artists.

Carriageworks and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in association with the Sydney Festival present two exhibitions by one of China’s pre-eminent artists, Song Dong.

Internationally renowned Italian master jeweller Giampaolo Babetto has launched a small collection of gold rings through a Melbourne gallery specialising in handcrafted works by independent local and Italian jewellery makers; the first time his works have been shown in Australia. Stephanie Madison reports.

Temple & Webster is launching the Emerging Designer Award: ten homewares and furniture designers from across Australia, shortlisted by a panel of industry experts, are vying for a $5,000 cash prize.

The Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first major exhibition in Australia of Mumbai-born, London-based artist Anish Kapoor.

Supported by the Australia China Art Foundation, the exhibition of Works by Hong Kong based designer Michael Young highlights the creative potential of China’s modern industry.

Elana Castle discovers a revolutionary and interactive open house experience, conceived and curated by the ultimate purveyor of style.

Melbourne design studio Lightly presents a curated boutique shopping event, featuring 25 of Australia’s best designers.

The theme of ‘containment’ will be explored by fourteen Victorian artists for the 2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, which focuses on contemporary design practice in Victoria and is arguably the most prestigious offered to a contemporary practitioner in Australia.

Sydney’s Tim Olsen Gallery is currently holding an exhibition by homewares and jewellery maestro Dinosaur Designs co-founder Stephen Ormandy bringing together a collection of bold, bright design oriented art works inspired by the natural world and imbued with a sense of joie de vivre.

A new era dawns for Australia’s leading design industry even: Sydney Indesign is set to change the way you see, feel, work with and experience design.

With 200 artworks from over 90 artists representing 11 art communities, the Coo-ee Christmas Exhibition is an unmissable opportunity to buy small scale works by indigenous artists.

Perhaps the most intellectually provocative exhibition to launch at aMBUSH Gallery this year, Frugal is a culturally reflective exploration of our changing attitudes toward consumption, waste and the fragility of our resources.

Danish furniture Brand BoConcept opens it’s first store in Sydney’s Crows Nest.

As part of the Southern Highland Arts Festival, Hillview is hosting the inaugural Sculpture on High exhibition.

Sydney Open is Australia’s premier architectural event and unlocks the doors to 70 of Sydney’s most prestigious residential homes, contemporary designed office blocks and much loved heritage sites.

Design is coming to Melbourne this December… in a BIG way.

Poliform Australia presents a unique exhibition from renowned Italian furniture brand Arflex.

Claire Layman continues her exploration “Into the Deep” by presenting a collection of paintings influenced by the hidden textures in water and rocks.

Sydney-based designers Armando Chant, Donna Sgro and Olivier Solente are set to launch their collaborative practice Make.Shift Collective with the group’s first exhibition ‘Constructions’. Stephanie Madison reports.

Coming together under the common goal of having an Australian or New Zealander design piece in every home, the team at Workshopped continue to foster home-grown talent by way of their annual exhibition.

The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is a national prize for free-standing sculptures of up to 80cm that draws dedicated support from artists, critics and collectors alike. This year the Prize has attracted 494 entries from Australia and other countries including New Zealand, India, Ireland, USA, UK, Ireland, Latvia and Japan.

Supercar d’Elegance announces a second Supercar gathering to be hosted at the Sydney Polo Club.

Maintaining artist Nicholas Blowers signature fascination with highly detailed representations of the natural world, his latest collection consists of intricate paintings of insects and plants examined with powerful microscopes.

Janice Seow reports on the products, events and showrooms at this year’s Saturday in Design Singapore.

Intersecting the essence of the museum’s raison d’être, ‘Theatre of the World’ explores the connection and continuity between old and new art.

Elana Castle interviews Malaysian architect Dr Ken Yeang, renowned eco-architect, ahead of his public talk as part of the Sydney Architecture Festival.

Studio Becker’s Fiona Lochtenberg hosts an important contemporary architecture exhibition of houses by Australia’s most iconic and significant architects.

Stimulating, eclectic and sometimes incongruous, the thirteenth International Architecture Exhibition spans from pressing issues of contemporary architecture to abstract themes more peripheral to the practice. Lorenzo Logi reports.

American artist Patrick Dougherty brings his arboreal creations to the heart of Melbourne. Mandi Keighran reports.

Metalab will showcase the finalists for the National Contemporary Jewellery Award, feature 28 pieces from some of Australia’s best contemporary jewellers.

To be held at the red dot design museum, this year’s Curated Space will be a major treat for visitors with more than 10 exhibitors and designers and unique installations to boot.

At London’s Design Museum, world-famous artists and designers have come together to explore the meaning of memory in a showcase of crystal, contrast and light, writes Ola Bednarczuk.

After the massive success of the inaugural Saturday in Design last year, the highly anticipated design event returns to Singapore once more on Saturday October 6 – this time, bigger, better and with more design in tow.

The Spanish artist’s collection of arresting images stretch the imagination with a fantastical fusion of figure and fiction.

Exploring the principles of binocular (two-eyed) vision, David Burrows’ installation transplants the dramatic beauty of an antarctic glacier to Melbourne’s federation square.

A body of work from Aboriginal artist Sarrita King combines traditional dotting with her own techniques to create beautifully evocative artworks.

As part of this year’s Saturday in Design we awarded the Habitus Award for Best Residential Product. And the winner is…

Curated by Sue Cramer, he exhibition Less is More: Minimal & Post-Minimal Art in Australia examines how in 1960s Melbourne and Sydney, a young generation of artists—eager to address what they saw as the latest and most progressive developments in art—explored Minimalism …

A collection of works by seven artists explores the concept of space through a variety of mediums.

The highlight of Melbourne Art Week, the Melbourne Art Fair will bring together over 70 leading Australian and international galleries, representing over 900 living artists for Australia’s leading Fair of contemporary art.

The Swedish Cider brand created a frosty wonderland at the Belgium Beer Cafe in Melbourne to showcase its special edition winter beverages.

A collection of photography from contemporary artists stimulates reflection on how we interact with our urban environment.

Yeesookyung and Park Young-Sook both live and work in Seoul. Their works can be found at the MCA as part of the Biennale of Sydney. By Hayley Davis.

The Richmond gallery unveils two new collections spanning blown glass and Japanese kozo paper.

Conny Dietzschold gallery’s first collaboration with their partner gallery in Hong Kong consists of a group show exhibiting works by international artists and complements the accompanying symposium on the fate of women in modern society.

A new collection of conceptual bamboo furniture by Kent Gration explores how sustainability can complement good design.

Known for his constant global travels, his social and politically charged messages, ABOVE returns to Melbourne in July to present his solo show titled ‘Jet Set’ – an exhibition of new works at Metro Gallery.

Now in its fifth year, DESIGN:MADE:TRADE has become a hot spot for emerging designers. Balancing a cutting edge consumer market atmosphere with trade opportunity, the event acts as a platform to help build business partnerships and gives designers the chance for profile elevation.

Tasmanian-based painter, Michael McWilliams will exhibit a new body of work at MiCK, Sydney’s newest contemporary art space.

Following their hugely successful 5th Annual Architecture & Interior Design Awards held in Spain, Porcelanosa Grupo announce the launch of the first such awards for the A&D community in Australia.

Screen Space Gallery presents two new video installations.

Built up of layer upon layer of paint, Robyn Burgess’ paintings are defined by their rich colours and dense, mesmerising surfaces that shimmer and move giving each painting a tactile, sculptural quality.

Ryan Renshaw Gallery presents the highly anticipated show by emerging Australian artist, André Piguet, in GUPPY JUNGLE.

A new exhibition at the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum explores the single frame melodramas and Benday dot imagery of iconic pop artist Roy Lichtenstein; a central figure in the 1960s American Pop Art movement. By Stephanie Madison.

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare explores the turbulent history of immigration in Australia through his high flying machines and planet installations.

John Giese brings life, light and movement to his animal subjects in his latest exhibition Totem. By Claire Winifred Roberston.

Combining a constructed installation with multimedia Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan explore the culture and circumstances of a nomadic Philippino minority group.

Richard Blackwell’s latest collection employs an incongruous and eclectic mix of materials to examine how we perceive scale, boundaries and space.

Life Instyle Melbourne returns this August with a fantastic mix of home wares, fashion and jewellery.

Mika Utzon Popov takes Tokens from his encounters with untamed landscapes. By Hayley Davis.

Finnish photographer Onerva Utrianinen meditates on the speed of the modern mover by transfixing visions of rural Australia in motion. Hayley Davis reports.

The Polish born artist’s arresting new collection evokes the Flemish style with its bleak, contemplative tableauxs. Claire Robertson takes a look.

A collection of images of the iconic rock band from photographers including Lynn Goldsmith, Terry O’Neill, Michael Putland, Ethan Russell, Philip Townsend and Barrie Wentzel celebrates one of the biggest acts in history over five decades.

The visceral creations of Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere tap into the human need to experience transformation and transcendence. Hayley Davis reports.

This month the Conny Dietzschold Gallery presents a selection of vibrant, upbeat paintings, connected by dots.

As part of Vivid, Threadless, T-world, aMBUSH & Vivid Ideas present Make Great Together: a celebration of the t-shirt.

MiCK launches an annual sculpture exhibition featuring local and international artists and members of Sculpture by the Sea’s ‘Decade Club’.

The ‘sub|version’ light sculpture uses the latest digital projection technologies to create an eerily beautiful series of images in the waters of Sydney Harbour.

Fortyfivedownstairs hosts an exhibition of past and present posters from the iconic furniture brand.

Sliding between angular and organic, Arik Levy’s RockGrowth series captivates with its bold volumes and clean, metallic finishes.

The Australian Wine Design Competition Awards 2012 recognise the best in Australian wine design.

‘Month of Design’ is back this year at Supacenta Moore Park with a series of creative, design-focused events intended to engage and inspire.

Four young designers from the Singapore university present their collections at Mercedes Benz fashion week in Sydney.

Exploring the electric energy of New York via overlooked, quotidian subject matter, Kathryn Sprigg captures the metropolis in a simultaneously humble and grandiose tone.

Adelaide opens forty-eight iconic buildings to the public, ranging from heritage to cutting edge.

Your Future Home wishes to spotlight those individuals, companies, associations, non-for-profits, suppliers, products, government bodies, websites, magazines and journalists that are inspiring and contributing towards the success of the sustainable building industry in Australia.

Mindd Centre for Integrative Healthcare launches in Sydney.

With scores of participating brands, special events and appearances by designers, Brisbane Indesign is set to showcase the best local and international design.

Photographers Katrin Koenning and Hugh Stewart reveal their latest works as part of the Head On Photo Festival at MiCK gallery.

Located in the suburb of Parkdale, the new art space combines a minimalist layout with technological sophistication.

The inauguration of an Australian interiors and design fair not only presents an exciting opportunity to see the best and newest in Australian design, it also promises to enrich and consolidate the sector.

An opportunity for aficionados and casual appreciators alike, Art Melbourne showcases accesible, affordable art in an iconic setting.

France’s foremost contemporary design museum adds ‘Icarus’, an installation by New Zealand desiner David Trubridge, to it’s permanent collection.

Multi-layered and multi-sensory, this unusual experience created by uber-chic stylist Faye Toogood is a resounding success.

The Blocks by Faye Toogood gave everyone something to talk about.

James Street Precinct, Brisbane’s vibrant hub of boutique design, fashion and hospitality outlets continues it’s up late events with Indesign and Marie Claire.

The good news for addicted online shoppers is that Dalani is always on sale. The bad news is you need to be a member to receive their great discounts!

A vast improvement on the six-o’clock-swill, the aperitivo is a chance to chat, nibble, and enjoy a tasty drink.

Ercol hand-crafted furniture arrived in Australia in early 2012. Celebrating their launch with a ‘high tea’ event at Temperature Design, Ercol were proud to unveil a range of elegant furniture that’s made with elm, ash, beech, oak and walnut sourced from sustainable forests in North America or Europe.

One Enchanted Evening was the theme for the launch of the Oly Concept Store.

Sydney’s artistic community converges on Carriageworks to inaugurate the Art Month 2012.

On the evening of Thursday 2 February Cartier Maison hosted a glittering red carpet event in the Grand Lobby of 101 Collins Street, Melbourne. The highly anticipated event attracted VIPs, celebrities and media personalities, including Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, …

The presentation of Richard Munao’s medal for servcies to Danish Export was a grand occasion – marked by a reception for 150 at the Corporate Culture showroom in Melbourne with both His Royal Highness Prince Frederik of Denmark and his wife Prince Mary in attendance.

Celebrating its third birthday, the new-look Habitus reworked by studio one8one7 hits newsstands on 7 December.

Paul McGillick reports from the opening of Space Asia Hub in Singapore.

The NSW design community came out in force to support Broached Commissions; an annual international design collaboration that uses Australian history as inspiration for each new collection.

Jess Malouf, Third Year Interior Design student has just won herself and her Program Coordinator Monique Rappell, an all-expenses paid trip to London in 2012 to attend Grand Designs Live UK!

Grand Designs is coming to life from 21-23 October 2011 at The Sydney Convention centre NSW.

Trade persons from the architecture and design community nationwide, can enjoy a discount on outdoor furniture thanks to an exclusive sale at Domo

A host of outstanding new designs on show for Pierantonio Bonacina at Maison et Objet in Paris 

Sydneysiders get a taste of flavours, textures and cooking
methods from around the world