Women He’s Undressed. A film by Gillian Armstrong. Image via womenhesundressed.com

We don’t just spend our time thinking about handbags, shoes and accessories...Honestly. We’ve assembled a list of our top 5 culture-vulture happenings we’re looking forward to right now. So stop scrolling and get your eyes up and out as you hit up our hot list.

QUEENSLAND

Monica Rohan. Jumble, 2015. Image via QAGOMA

Arguably Brisbane’s premier cultural destination, The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) has been host to several major exhibitions over the past decade, including a major display of Valentino’s haute couture collection (2010), and Australia’s first major Warhol retrospective (2007). Their latest project, GOMAQ, will profile more than
30 emerging and senior artists working across a broad spectrum of themes and media. The first in a series that will profile the innovations and achievements of leading Queensland visual artists, the exhibition features the work of more than 30 artists, including Monica Rohan (pictured). Inspired by a rural-idyll of a childhood in South East Queensland and the internal longing of the 19th century novel, floating transcendence and anchored realism share equal magnitude in Rohan’s paintings.

Until October 11 at QAGOMA.

NEW SOUTH WALES

Yohji Yamamoto. Womenswear catalogue image, 1986. Image by Nick Knight via the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

From London’s acclaimed Victoria and Albert Museum, Inspiration by Design celebrates over 150 years of some of the world’s finest illustration, photography, graphics and more. Immerse yourself in more than 100 treasures including original sketches from Comme des Garçons and Christian Dior, hand-drawn illustrations from Beatrix Potter and much more.

Until 27 September, State Library of New South Wales.

VICTORIA

Welcome to Thornbury. Image via Broadsheet.

Food trucks are still a thing, k? If there’s one thing we love, it’s a rotating schedule of deliciousness all in the one place. Enter Welcome to Thornbury. Located on the former site of a car manufacturing factory, the venue has been transformed into a mixed indoor and outdoor space housing multiple bars, food trucks and a beer hall. With plenty of seating and lush foliage, there’s no doubt it will be a popular spot on balmy summer nights.

Welcome to Thornbury, open late every day. 520 High Street, Northcote.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Women He’s Undressed. Image via womenhesundressed.com

There’s nothing more exciting than spending your weekend sitting in a dark room with a bunch people you don’t know, right? Well from 26th to 30th August, you can do just that for five days straight, at the western state’s CinefestOZ. The festival attracts filmmakers from around the globe, with an extensive program of films and film industry forums in the
Western Australian centres of Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River and surrounds.
The festival includes Gillian Armstrong’s (Little Women, Charlotte Gray) Women He’s Undressed. The cinema length documentary explores the life of Australia’s most prolific costume designer, Orry-Kelly, who designed for stars like Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and many more. Orry-Kelly won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a fourth.

August 26 – 30, various locations around Western Australia.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Electra House Image via Facebook.

After 20 years sitting dormant, historic Electra House has been transformed into a stately stone edifice to provide a home to Adelaide’s most diverse food destination. Built in 1901 to accommodate the employees of the Citizens Life Assurance Co, the three-storey heritage-listed building exudes dignity, with Corinthian columns, shapely balusters and muscle-clad gargoyles. Even if you’re not up for a drink or a snack, the building is well worth a squiz.

Electra House, open every day except Sunday. 131 King William Street, Adelaide.