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23rd Biennale of Sydney announces theme and first 59 participants
With the first participants announced, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is centred on rīvus, a Latin word which can be translated as ‘stream’.
Richard Bell’s art is a call for social justice that’s equally serious, poetic and darkly humorous. Here, the renowned Indigenous artist tells us the personal and compelling stories behind five of his artworks.
Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.
In This Brittle Light, at Buxton Contemporary, six Light Source Commissions, which began as online works during the pandemic, transition into the gallery space and underline why art matters, no matter where you see it.
Fiona Hall is a seasoned storyteller. In her installations EXODUST at AGNSW and Who goes here? at Hyde Park Barracks, she use the language of art – both subtle and bold – to step in where words fail.
Mapping data from conflict zones and disaster areas, Stanislava Pinchuk (also known as Miso) creates art that reflects upon trauma, memory and landscape.
With the first participants announced, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is centred on rīvus, a Latin word which can be translated as ‘stream’.
‘Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art’ looks at sentience, interspecies communication, and definitions of ‘life’.
The National Gallery of Victoria’s triennial showcase of local and international contemporary art, design and architecture closes 18 April, but the NGV Triennial 2020 lives on as a weighty catalogue.
Ruth Burgess filters the work of a 17th century astronomer and her own youthful career as an experimental composer through a decades-long printmaking practice in her latest solo show, The Music of the Planets at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
Sophia Cai finds works of art in chores, cooking, and care.
Margel Hinder (née Harris) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1905. In 1934 she moved to Sydney with her new husband Frank and made her mark on the Australian art scene as one of the key proponents of modernist sculpture.
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
This Icon series exhibition delves into poetic microcosms with a sense of wonder.
In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
One of Australia’s renowned illustrators, Oslo Davis, gives us a glimpse into the motivations, meaning and humour behind a recent collection of drawings.
Tarrawarra translates as ‘slow-moving water’, and the ‘TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters’ embraces slowness amidst an accelerating 21st century.
“We want your blood,” declared Dark Mofo on Saturday. This was not a metaphorical call. This was a literal request of First Nations Peoples by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.
Through the characters Sox and Yow, artist duo Astro Morphs create videos that are equally cosmological and biological.
In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? These questions, and more, are explored in the second episode of our newest podcast series FEM-aFFINITY, featuring a very honest and intimate conversation with photographer Janelle Low.
What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? FEM-aFFINITY, a new three-part podcast series, delves into this question by focussing on an exhibition of the same title.
KNOW MY NAME the book offers encyclopedia-style bite-sized entries on more that 150 female artists.
First held in 1990 at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, Desert Mob is the oldest of Australia’s thriving annual program of Aboriginal art fairs. With its 30th anniversary coming up in September 2020, Kate Hennessy looks back on Desert Mob 2019.
In Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists, Abigail Crompton presents the work of more than 20 Australian and international artists that, in her words, tell a story of “resilience, tenacity, sacrifice and steely determination.”
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