Katya Wachtel

In her new show Cocoon, miniature works by the 11-time Archibald Prize finalist capture some of the city’s most well-trodden green spaces in extraordinary detail.

Painter William MacKinnon has turned an old beach house, overlooking a legendary Victorian surf break, into an extraordinary destination that pays tribute to holiday nostalgia and the art that’s defined his life.

Creatives, execs, journalists and a pilot share their non-negotiable packing rules, hard-earned luggage lore and the items they’d never travel without.

Nostalgia has long been a catalyst, muse and lens for artists. But how they use, view and express something so multifaceted varies wildly, as these six artists prove.

The Mornington Peninsula wellness destination has lured day-trippers since it opened in 2022. The spa’s new luxury lodging gives people another reason to visit, and means guests can now stay overnight.

The backstory for each style in this glam new collection runs deep, with six different silhouettes that pay homage to “unruly heroines” from ’80s and ’90s cinema.

The Melbourne artist’s painstaking ceramic replicas of discarded paper lists are like tiny, anonymous portraits.

Dim sim remixes by top chefs. Middle Eastern tacos from the “ultimate snack bosses”. A Danish baking phenomenon. And a pastry party of epic proportions. Ready your diaries.

About Time is one of the biggest openings in Australian wellness this year. Its owners, and their architect, knew it had to look and feel different to anything that came before it.

The Australian ceramicist and his pop-culture paeans have the attention of American curators. His latest exhibition, at New York’s fabled Rockefeller Center, is an auspicious start to a new overseas chapter.

Cascading glass baubles, hourglass-shaped shades, sconces from legendary Murano glassmakers. Aussie design duo Toni and Alex Butchart specialise in stunning hard-to-find 20th-century lighting, and their online store is a decor-lover’s dream.

Out of the bones of a Victorian-era shopfront, an alluring new home for the tailor’s Femme line will open on High Street this month.