For decades painter Bruce Thurrowgood has committed himself to depicting the essence of light, reflected in his latest paintings at Handmark Gallery.
“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.
Kate Vassallo’s Ripple marks the conclusion of Artereal Gallery’s exhibition program, as the Sydney gallery is closing its doors after nearly two decades.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery takes us deeper into the life of the often-mythologised artist Frida Kahlo, through her personal photographs, clothing and objects, borrowed from Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house museum in Mexico.
Using a hand coil pinch technique, the pots created by the Hermannsburg Potters of Western Arrarnta in Central Australia illustrate the lived histories of the artists and their surrounding Country. Their latest creations are now showing at Bett Gallery in Hobart.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Sandra Black is best known for her distinctive carved and pierced porcelain vessels, which are now showing in a comprehensive survey show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. We step inside Black’s light-filled Fremantle studio, where she has worked since 1988.
For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.
