Printmakers Monika Lukowska and Nikki Green have collaborated with poet Renee Pettitt-Schipp to highlight the importance of preserving the ecosystems of Western Australia’s south coast. Their exhibition, Tracing Gondwana, is now showing at Midland Junction Arts Centre.
From the Archibald to the Mona Lisa to the selfie, portraiture is a ubiquitous genre of our time. Yet it has an urgent social undercurrent of whose image we value, and what that image speaks to—which contemporary artists like Blak Douglas, Atong Atem, Peter Drew, Yvette Coppersmith and Kate Beynon are questioning with stunning effect.
One afternoon, writer and artist Diego Ramirez met with Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell for a drink and a parma—and to chat about their joint exhibition Speech Patterns at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
From Nick Cave to KAWS to Patricia Piccinini, artists in Freedom of Movement: Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection look at the ever-blurred lines of design and art, capturing everything from the stuff we buy to fantastical realms.
The long-awaited new Sydney Modern campus, opening 3 December, will transform the Art Gallery of New South Wales—making it the largest cultural investment in Sydney since the Opera House.
Congratulations to Graeme Drendel, who has won the 2022 Doug Moran Portrait Prize for his painting of fellow artist Lewis Miller, in Australia’s richest portrait prize.
Teo Treloar has lately been collecting and illustrating editions of Albert Camus’s The Plague—a novel about, you guessed it, plagues. Now, Treloar’s stunningly detailed drawings are showing at Grafton Regional Gallery.
Lydia Wegner’s photographs urge audiences to question what they see. Wegner’s latest work at Arc One Gallery presents audiences with visual abstractions that cause reason to pause and pay attention.
“I’m doing that something humans do: I’m trying to explain this time to myself by making something from it and about it,” says artist Kate Tucker in our new podcast mini-series on art, creating and care, linking with the NETS Victoria touring exhibition Notions Of Care.
From being a carpenter on the Wollongong waterfront to working at Bunnings and then becoming a successful artist, it’s little wonder Dan Moynihan’s practice reveals a love of materials, alongside a good dose of humour—as his new show at Tolarno illustrates.
“Protesters’ willingness to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs is always inspiring,” says Palawa artist Jemima Wyman on creating art centering resistance movements. Ahead of her showing in Air at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, we talk about her first protest and what compels her to acts of resistance.
Once called ‘Unaustralian’ by their own previous funders, Soda Jerk’s latest film at Samstag Museum of Art centres the moments that have defined the last six years: a pandemic, the Trump era, QAnon, the war in Ukraine and climate disaster.
Sneakers are a cultural phenomenon made up of paradoxes. Some see them as an accessible and inclusive force in fashion that serve as an outlet of self-expression for many; yet to others they are a symbol of out-of-control consumerism. Two Queensland exhibitions are embracing these dualities, though from contrasting angles: Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at HOTA on the Gold Coast, and Torsion at Brisbane’s Metro Arts.
For Betty Muffler art making and healing are indistinguishable. Evoking Country through the view of the eagle, she’s now showing in the NGV Triennial alongside a host of international names.
A comprehensive new survey at the National Gallery of Australia pays tribute to Emily Kam Kngwarray and the Country she loved.
From changing light bulbs to ending fossil fuel sponsorships, major Australian galleries and museums are attempting paths towards sustainability—but is this enough?
In a new show at Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Alex Hamilton paints urban spaces as vast landscapes.
“They stole my face,” shouts a ten-year-old boy into a microphone, before stomping away. We are in the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer exhibition Atmospheric Memory at the Powerhouse in Sydney. The boy’s photograph was taken as soon as he entered the exhibition and then publicly projected onto his shadow.
