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.
Building on traditional knowledge and aesthetics, John Mawurndjul has established a thoroughly contemporary practice.
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
As still as life celebrates the work of photographer Robyn Stacey, whose arrangements of museum holdings reconstitute the obsessions and occupations of historical collectors.
Working with textiles and bronze, Teelah George uses her smartphone to capture her new life in Melbourne.
Through the stark aesthetic of his smartphone images, Lawrence English provides a striking take on life during lockdown.
Our online lives are on steroids at present. Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online is prescient in this regard. Planned as a physical exhibition, it segued onto the internet with the pandemic and social-distancing.
While he firmly established a specific vision for the art he wanted to make, John Nixon always remained an artist who loved to experiment and explore.
Mel O’Callaghan’s art delves into one of our most fundamental questions.
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
Working between Melbourne and Bangkok, Lesley Dumbrell has sent us snaps of home life: creating, gardening and pets.
At the National Portrait Gallery, Before hand: the private life of the portrait delves into the back-stories of how subject and artist come together to make a work.
From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.
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.
From towering freeway sculpture to tiny glass-encased dioramas, Louise Paramor’s distinctive assemblages evoke both familiarity and wonder.
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