In Sam Michelle’s exhibition Play at Martin Browne Contemporary, oil paintings of flora, textiles and vessels become metaphors for childhood creativity—a spirit that adulthood often risks losing.
Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s practice spans painting, costume and performance,and he uses local waste and rented equipment to create installations that can be made from scratch at each new location. Having been awarded the 2023 Porter Street Commission, his large-scale participatory sculpture ROCKAMORA is now being shown at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.
Pierre Bonnard is known for his vivid landscapes and interior settings, and this winter the National Gallery of Victoria will host his work within the scenography of renowned Iranian-French architect and designer, India Mahdavi.
Perhaps it’s related to contemporary life, but the spiritual in art feels central at this moment. Now, as part of RISING Festival, the spiritual practices and connections of First Nations artists are taking over a historic Melbourne site.
Victoria’s flagship festival of music, food, art and culture is back, starting 7 June. With 185 events, here’s our recommendations of what to see—from Cate Blanchett as a tiger in a supermarket to First Nations artists connection to the spirit world.
Rembrandt is arguably one of the most influential and revered artists in history. Now, the NGV is putting on the most comprehensive exhibition of his vast oeuvre in more than 25 years.
Jonathan Jones’s National Gallery of Australia exhibition takes cue from a 32,000-year-old grindstone used for Aboriginal breadmaking. In an extremely thoughtful conversation with Timmah Ball, Jones talks about how this long precedes Western food production—but questions if people understand what this truly means.
Before Philippa Cullen’s untimely death, the artist, who was prominent in the early 1970s, envisioned “a new medium in which dance is inseparable with technology, music and lighting”. Fifty years later, her work is at McClelland Sculpture Park+ Gallery.
The Brooklyn-based artist was the editor, model, stylist and photographer on a 2018 project, ‘Indigenous Woman Magazine’, now showing at Cairns Art Gallery.
Congratulations to Ida Sophia who has won the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize for her performance-based video work, Witness, which is informed by the South Australian artist’s early childhood experience of watching her father’s baptism.
With four decades of propelling dance and choreography into museums and galleries, Shelley Lasica has transformed Australian art. Now, along with seven performers, she’s delivering WHEN I AM NOT THERE at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Known for expressing children’s emotional complexity, Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo displays an artist resurrecting his practice after tragedy, showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.
First Nations artist Reko Rennie possesses the gift of creating memorable images that are simultaneously puzzling, intriguing and entertaining.
Whether beloved pets or superstitious omens, animals have always existed in art. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia’s latest exhibition is paying tribute to two of the most beloved animal figures: cats and dogs.
