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The surprising skin of Garry Greenwood
Known for creating fantastically detailed masks, puppets and costumes, sculptor Garry Greenwood also crafted fully-functional musical instruments out of leather.
MIRKA, a new show at the Jewish Museum of Australia, allows audiences to hear Mirka Mora’s voice and see the artist’s work through the lens of her rich Jewish cultural heritage.
Carla Adams, who is showing alongside the late painter Albert Tucker at AGWA, uses pencils, paint, textiles and lots of pink to take on the messy business of online dating.
Unflinching, humorous, insistent: Bennett’s work speaks for itself in this landmark retrospective.
The intricate art of lace-making might bring to mind your grandmother’s tea-table, but it’s long been used to tell grand tales of war and passion, gods and kings.
Why Joi T. Arcand wants you to learn the Cree language.
Known for creating fantastically detailed masks, puppets and costumes, sculptor Garry Greenwood also crafted fully-functional musical instruments out of leather.
In NO SHOW, artist-led initiatives bring more than 50 creatives to Carriageworks.
Showing at JamFactory and set to tour Australia, CONCRETE brings together 21 projects by artists, architects and designers to explore the conceptual, expressive and material qualities of concrete.
Whether filming her parents, making casts of precious family objects, or screen printing her mother’s hummus recipe onto a stack of Bunnings rugs, Lara Chamas’s work resonates with humour, warmth and tenderness.
“When my editor suggested that I write a year in review column she cautioned me to take it easy on the bad news. We don’t need to be reminded once more that 2020 has been catastrophic. Make it upbeat. I’ll do my best.”
This Icon series exhibition delves into poetic microcosms with a sense of wonder.
Sonic artists reveal the rewards of deep listening, reshaping our perception of place.
Patrizia Biondi uses recycled cardboard to create elaborate sculptural assemblages that critique consumer culture.
KNOW MY NAME the book offers encyclopedia-style bite-sized entries on more that 150 female artists.
Patricia Piccinini’s powerfully maternal Skywhale is joined by Skywhalepapa, a gargantuan male counterpart gently embracing a litter of bulbous offspring.
From towering freeway sculpture to tiny glass-encased dioramas, Louise Paramor’s distinctive assemblages evoke both familiarity and wonder.
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.
Known for her immersive VR works, Jess Johnson has collaborated with her mother Cynthia to turn her obsessive drawings into quilts.
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.
For over 60 years John Wolseley has been visiting, capturing and sharing his experience of landscapes. But what does it mean to create and innovate over six decades?
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
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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