Celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at the Art Gallery of Ballarat with an exhibition of vintage prints from London's V&A Museum taken by royal photographer, Sir Cecil Beaton.

Using a facsimile of the book and researching places and images of Marie Antoinette’s life and era, including the revolution, Victorian artist Marion Manifold has created works that are richly beaded and/or embroidered, or painted, some with silk appliqué, in keeping with Marie Antoinette’s lifestyle.

Kerrie Leishman is inspired by wind turbines in the landscape, addressing the question of how an artist might create landscapes which incorporate these relatively new additions to the Australian countryside.

Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2012, a $10,000 acquisitive prize for a small drawing at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. Entries now open.

Catherine Johnston’s sculptures comment on the contemporary human condition using repetition, scale and respect for the technical process.

Two painters respond to the Victorian landscape.

This remarkable exhibition celebrates our continent’s amazing and diverse flora and the ways Australian plants have been recorded, interpreted and popularised by botanical artists from William Dampier and the early explorers to the present day.