“They’re visualising Country as spirit”: First Nations artists Maddison Gibbs and salllvage have been practicing deep listening to express connection to Country, exhibiting sound and sculpture works at Cement Fondu.
The Omie is a community living in the remote rainforest mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province creating the art of tapa—a tradition spanning across the Pacific. When Skirts Become Artworks: Sihoti’e Nioge, showing at Caloundra Regional Gallery, reveals the Omie’s distinctive tapa designs.
For far too long depictions of Australian landscapes have been dominated by male artists. Now the Art Gallery of Ballarat is showcasing reinterpretations of Australian Impressionism by female photographers, focusing on gender, migration and First Nations history.
Kate Rohdes’s whimsical sculptures are simultaneously natural, unnatural, and even supernatural. In a space shared with her fluffy ginger cat Lion and her 6-year-old son, Rohde’s warehouse in Melbourne’s Northcote is a busy site of creativity and play.
Tim Price’s latest series of paintings at Penny Contemporary playfully evoke the strange and surprising moments in life.
As we move toward the end of 2022, another year of many changes and adjustments, one thing for certain is that Australia holds strong in celebrating art and culture. Here’s seven new gallery spaces to visit this summer.
“What I represent in my work really reflects my life, because my work really reflects what I am personally going through,” says TextaQueen. Known for their texta creations, ahead of TextaQueen’s show at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art they talk about skewering Bollywood archetypes via fictional film posters, starring queer and trans South Asian people.
The history of breastfeeding reveals uncomfortable truths about women, work and money. An unlikely place where the history of nursing is clearly visible is in Impressionist paintings.
With a practice spanning five decades, Nalini Malani’s innovative video and performance art is internationally acclaimed for interrogating gender, race and political histories. Malani’s first major Australian survey is now showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Known for his dynamic paintings created from reused materials, Bruce Reynolds is now making award-winning sculptures. It’s a busy time for Reynolds, with a survey exhibition at Brisbane’s Artisan gallery and work also showing across Canberra, Sydney and Rockhampton.
For over three decades Do Ho Suh has worked across forms like installation, sculpture and film to interrogate diaspora and concepts of belonging. Suh’s first Australian solo is now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art this summer.
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.
A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.
With a 50-year practice exploring her Chinese heritage, longing and belonging, Zen spiritualism and the endless nature of being, Lindy Lee is now unveiling the pinnacle of her art.
In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.
