The Rigg Design Prize is Australia’s most prestigious accolade for contemporary design – recognising the energy, ingenuity and vision of emerging designers who are making significant contributions to their fields.

Olive Gill-Hille’s Memento (2025) responds to the Rigg Design Prize’s invitation to create an ambitious work that reflects bold approaches to materiality, form and function. 

Favouring handmade processes and ethically sourced Western Australian timbers, Gill-Hille sculpts emotionally resonant furniture characterised by organic forms.

Fernando do Campo joins local, national and internationally recognised artists in Caboolture Regional Art Gallery’s exhibition Yield – a contemporary unearthing of our cultivated identity, the legacies of early agricultural practices and how we continue to be impacted by them today. 

Yield presents paintings by do Campo that explore flora and fauna he encounters and the histories they carry. Artworks like these hold within them a true narrative, which celebrates storytelling painting and brings a contemporary and fresh perspective to the greater Australian story.

Held in the permanent collection of the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA), Lisa Reihana's monumental video installation In Pursuit of Venus [infected] is now on exhibition as part of Grounded.

LAMCA’s Grounded brings together 35 artists based in the Americas and the Pacific, presenting works spanning the 1970s to today, which invite visitors to see land not just as terrain, but as a foundation for exploring ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home.

Ngununggula presents its inaugural international exhibition featuring acclaimed Aotearoa artist Lisa Reihana. The exhibition reveals the spectrum of Reihana’s artistic practice, showcasing a suite of digital artworks and photography, including a new iteration of her digital artwork Māramatanga and a site-specific outdoor installation that sees the artist wrap the front of the gallery with hundreds of reflective discs, glistening and moving with the wind. 

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | Melbourne, Vic

29 August 2025 – 1 February 2026

Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday explores how designers are reshaping the products and systems that shape our daily lives – transforming them into solutions that are better for people and the planet. 

Kyoko Hashimoto and Guy Keulemans' Bioregional rings (Northern Flinders subregion), 2024, is a collection of 16 sculptural rings made from wood and paper from native timbers, yakka resin, and ochre. Through objects that are functional, beautiful, and environmentally conscious, we can consider how design can drive positive change.

Jake Rollins has been awarded second place for the MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design - the Australian Design Centre's initiative founded in 2023 that celebrates innovation in technique or material.

“The judges were deeply impressed by the level of craft and design excellence and innovation in the works.” 

Made from 3744 golf balls, SOFA1 is the latest expression of GolfWeave, a body of work using golf balls as beads and the principles of triaxial weaving to create human-scaled, functional objects.