Albert began as a trainee at the Queensland Art Gallery 17 years ago. His success was propelled by membership of proppaNOW – a Brisbane-based art collective. And he is eager to reciprocate the favour.
“Art has always served as a record of our cultural lives,” says artist Jane James when explaining the larger ideals behind her work.
John Young has embraced the potential of technology, even while continuing to paint the old-fashioned way – very carefully.
Hayley Megan French paints landscapes that express, via abstraction and minimalism, a connection to place.
Melbourne-based artist Linda Tegg has joined forces with Baracco+Wright Architects as creative directors for the Australian pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The project, titled Repair, features thousands of native Australian grasses. Tracey Clement spoke with the artist while she was in Venice preparing for the grand opening.
A group exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art examines the divide between architectural spaces of global power, and the most precarious of structures.
The annual Hatched National Graduate Show showcases works by talented recent art school graduates from around the country.
Sydney-based artist Tina Havelock Stevens has won the 65th Blake Prize for her performance video work, Giant Rock, 2017.
If showing in an international biennale is a dream job for most young artists, then Nicole Wong, a recent graduate from the UK’s Nottingham University, has already ticked that box.
As the title indicates, Embellish concentrates on the artist’s love of textiles and dressing up, and the show includes both her paintings and drawings of people in elaborate outfits as well as some actual costumes.
The second Mordant Family VR commission has been awarded to Joan Ross who will realise an ambitious project in the style of a video game for ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).
NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin has announced that Dr Michael Brand has been reappointed as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
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.
Curated by Lee Kinsella, Stuffed, Bolstered and Upholstered—on now at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery—looks at how woven and fibre objects align with the human form, encompassing the practices of over thirty artists working across textiles, painting, ceramics, sculpture and installation.
Artists need not fear the spectre of AI-generated art. Instead, Oslo Davis suggests, we need to start reaping the rewards.
In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.
