In Life in Pieces, Melanie Meggs explores chronic illness, memory loss, and identity through sculpture and AI-generated video, examining survival as an ongoing negotiation with a body forever altered.

In Lee Ufan's art, nothingness does not mean emptiness as absence or lack. Instead, it becomes an active space of possibility.

James Rhodes is a Newcastle interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher at Newcastle Art School whose practice examines photography as a physical and spatial object rather than simply a two-dimensional image.

This week focused on how creatives develop and distribute content and also discussed collaborative models involving commissions with designers and developers.

The guest lecture by Ingrid Hedgecock examines the role of regional galleries within the Australian arts sector through discussions of curatorial practice, administration, funding, artist development, and cultural tourism.

Week 9 focuses on the realities of sustaining an independent creative practice through contracts, commissions, professional conduct, and diversified income streams.

Interdisciplinary artist Clare Weeks uses her own body to explore illness, identity, and the relationship between fragility and endurance.

I conducted a structured interview with Karen Ghostlaw, business partner, CEO of The Pictorial List Inc., and Gallery Director of Pictorial Foundation, to gain insight into our collaborative practice and organisational direction.

Week 8 focused on the professional and strategic aspects of sustaining a creative practice through funding opportunities, grant applications, residencies, and project planning.

Sophie Calle works in a way where life and art are completely mixed together.

Artists use machine learning to generate images, extend photographic and digital processes, construct speculative worlds, analyse data, automate movement, and create responsive installations.

We visited both the Art Gallery of New South Wales and White Bay Power Station, two exhibition sites operating within the Biennale program.

The careers of Jadé Fadojutimi, Amoako Boafo, and Refik Anadol show different ways artists can build a career today, depending on the type of work they make, the people they connect with, and the support they receive from galleries and institutions.

This week explores how contemporary artists use technology to create artworks that respond, shift, or evolve through audience interaction, code, sensors, virtual reality, robotics, and artificial intelligence.