NewsBy Gemma Pass David Ray wins Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award Congratulations to Yarra Valley-based artist David Ray who has won the $10,000 biennial Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award.
PreviewBy Tiarney Miekus René Magritte: The Revealing Image, Photos and Films Staged in collaboration with the Magritte Foundation in Belgium, The Revealing Image displays a collection of Magritte’s personal, and largely unseen, photographs and films.
Preview Something Living “From cave paintings to now, people have always wanted to make pictures of people.” By Tracey Clement
Preview Grounded: Contemporary Australian Art Art school affords future creators the time and space to experiment, understand and refine their craft. Grounded: Contemporary Australian Art at the National Art School Gallery harks back to these formative years. By Tiarney Miekus
Preview Sanné Mestrom: CORRECTIONS How we perceive images and objects and their associated historical meaning has been a central focus of Sanné Mestrom’s practice for several years. By Briony Downes
Feature Fred Williams changed the way we see At Geelong Gallery, within cooee of the You Yangs, director Jason Smith has curated a homecoming for 65 of Williams’s paintings. By Sheridan Coleman
News Kuba Dorabialski wins John Fries Award 2017 Sydney-based artist Kuba Dorabialski has won the annual John Fries Award for early-career artists from Australia and New Zealand with his video work, Invocation Trilogy #1: Floor Dance of Lenin’s Resurrection 2017. By Tracey Clement
Review Structures and Passages Along the edges of the artwork a slight glimpse reveals the balsa wood and cardboard scaffolding that holds up Blasco’s glossy photographic metropolis. By Tracey Clement
News 2017 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) The 2017 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award goes to a South Australian family of artists, Anwar Young, Frank Young and Unrupa Rhonda Dick, for a collaborative multimedia work Kulata Tjuta – Wati kulunypa tjukurpa (Many spears – Young fella story). By Louise Martin-Chew
Preview David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence A new retrospective exhibition, David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence at RMIT Design Hub, aims to bring attention to empathic observations by ‘looking at the act of looking’. By Tiarney Miekus
More Grand Designs Whenever I think of artists working with architecture as a subject, or even artists doing some kind of collaboration with architects, I imagine it’s a very high-toned a air: you know, classy. CommentBy Andrew Frost
Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art Australian constructivism, since its birth in the 1930s, built upon the legacy of both British and Russian constructivists, “by emphasising the material, spatial and technical aspects of art making, and by furthering the abstract language of geometric forms,” explains curator Sue Cramer. PreviewBy Ariele Hoffman
Brave New World: Australia 1930s It’s quite strange that the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 is also the year of greatest unemployment in Australian history. PreviewBy Tiarney Miekus
