Suggested Reading
Making Space at the Table
NAP Contemporary’s group show, The Elephant Table, platforms six artists and voices—creating chaos, connection and conversation.
Camilla Wagstaff
Restoring Stories
Key artworks from the East Kimberley Art Movement have been restored and are on display in Ride on, shine on at the South Australian Museum.
Steve Dow
How to Revise an Art Prize
By reducing barriers to entry, a Western Australian art prize fosters a freer approach to artmaking—and invites more experimental practices to take centre stage.
Josephine Mead
Reframing a Collection
Drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s show Place Makers, reframes the artists—who just happen to be female.
Jo Higgins
Inside Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s Studio, Where Ideas Grow
Ahead of her solo exhibition at Niagara Galleries, Vongpoothorn contemplates the ideas sprouted during her residency, and how they have transformed once returned to her Canberra studio.
Sophia Halloway
Seeing Double
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.