In general, the photos surrounding the process of filmmaking are not thought of as art objects or as portraiture. Yet Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, presented by the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, displays these photographs precisely as portraiture.
Rather than simply relegating the voice to mere sound, in Seeing voices the voice comes to us in many utterances and instances. It is linguistic, cultural, social, gendered, human and post-human. In this regional touring exhibition the voice is explored as a visual, political and material entity.
Not unlike the vintage photographs he works with, John Stezaker was unearthed after decades of obscurity.
Angela Tiatia’s work resonates with bravery and energy – in Holding On, she pits herself against the forces of nature.
Flower Feelings, a new zine by Adelaide-based artist Lucy Thomas which combines the symbolic meaning of flowers with personal anecdotes, is being launched as part of the exhibition Magic Zine: YOU ARE ART at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery.
Gallery director Steven Joyce says the contrast between Garland’s black-and-white photographs and Usmiani’s colourful work will present well visually. “They’re showing jointly and will feed off each other,” he says.
John Nicholson’s latest body of work draws on industrial production, both in its medium and as its muse.
Spinifex is the material of choice for Macnamara, who twists, coils and weaves the grass to create forms that are at once delicate, intricate, complex and subtle.
Without seeds we would starve and The Last Seed was inspired by the threat posed by climate change to the so-called ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Norway.
Congratulations to Deanna Hitti who has won first prize in the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with her artist’s book titled, TOWLA.
Ken Unsworth met with Brad Buckley to discuss his upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, the publication of a new monograph about his work, and his ongoing desire for creative control.
Bringing together 20 projects from Australian and international artists, mathematicians, scientists, psychologists and designers, PERFECTION positions its theme as neither virtue nor vice.
“These aesthetic choices are my history. My culture is pop culture. My background is TV, not religion or spirituality. I can only speak of my own life: I’m trying to make sense of it all, like everyone.” —Darren Sylvester
Adelaide//International finds artists raising the question of who holds the power of narration in a series of four solo exhibitions.
Fiona Abicare works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context.
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