With an eye for capturing the colonial holds of history while communicating her profound spiritual connection to Country, in My Place – Before Marlene Gilson paints the history of her home.
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.
Despite the barriers to international travel, New York artist Robin Frohardt is bringing her ecological art installation—centred on plastic bags—to Adelaide.
PHOTO 2021, which runs across multiple venues in Melbourne, tackles truth in the post-truth era.
Children can radically alter how artists approach their work—and some even find themselves collaborating with their kids.
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
In 2019 the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects as part of their Living Treasures series. The exhibition is still touring the nation and has recently arrived at Design Tasmania.
Botticelli, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya, Renoir and Cézanne: in a time of limited travel, masterpieces from the National Gallery, London are coming to our National Gallery of Australia
Painter Jack Lanagan Dunbar uses copper and gestural mark-making to capture both the folly of humanity and the awesome power of nature in his solo show Signal, part of Art Month Sydney.
“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.”
In his solo show at Macquarie University Art Gallery, Pandemic Bodies, Fan Dongwang tries to raise awareness of humanity’s shortcomings.
From riots and rations to the story of Aboriginal baking, this group exhibition explores how history has been shaped by the humble loaf.
Newly announced NGV 2021 season includes both local and international impressionism.
Gabriella Hirst’s latest video takes influence from an 1800s painting of the Darling River, questioning why we immortalise nature in painting, but not in life.
Curator Tim Riley Walsh talks about bringing together Queensland artists to picture climate disasters that are beyond the limits of perception for On Fire: Climate and Crisis at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA).
Sophia Cai finds works of art in chores, cooking, and care.
Kangaroo teeth, river reeds, streetwear and sculpture: the rich world of contemporary Indigenous fashion.
In the group show Void, curator Emily McDaniel from the Kalari Clan of the Wiradjuri nation in central New South Wales invoked the void as a space occupied by Indigenous knowledge, stories and meaning.
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.
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?
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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