This summer, the exhibition Water, which features 40 works by both Australian and international artists, asks visitors to take the time to really think about this precious resource.
An exhibition titled Animal Nation may, on the surface, presuppose a simply figurative display of animal life.
The notion of a worthy adversary is an ancient tradition. Matisse & Picasso narrates the artists’ intense mutual scrutiny, public disagreement and praise-via-appropriation.
In Elena Papanikolakis’s paintings, personal history sat side by side with ancient history.
Through subtle sculptural gestures, Jenny Loft offers meditations on place and the importance of environmental care.
ACMI’s new commissioning series involves 3 annual awards of $80,000 each, dedicated to helping young artists realise new work.
Jumaadi’s exhibition My love is an Island Far Away at Mosman Art Gallery has been years in the making.
If you’ve been around the art world for awhile, it’s easy to forget that a lot of people can still find the whole thing intimidating.
They were giants of the New York art scene of the 1980s, stratospherically popular with collectors and the public but snubbed by art institutions during their short lifetimes.
Raquel Ormella has wielded a needle to chart our cultural landscape in all of its intensities.
Yhonnie Scarce creates works that not only have emotional depth and complexity, they are also tenderly monumental.
Focusing on a particular setting to reach something universal preoccupies Joanna Logue, and she tries to achieve this in her solo show Floating World through landscape paintings that lean towards the abstract.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour.
For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.
At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration. A retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the evolution of her practice.
