Katie West’s seasonal dyeing and gentle making
There is a concern for decolonisation, the environment and putting forward Indigenous perspectives, and championing a closer and more caring relationship with nature.
There is a concern for decolonisation, the environment and putting forward Indigenous perspectives, and championing a closer and more caring relationship with nature.
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.
Invisible Threads places emphasis on Kotai’s more recent fabric collages, a technique she happened on by chance in the early 2000s.
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
A jeweller friend remarked to me that if you come across work in a jewellery show and can’t immediately recognise who made it, it is probably by Lisa Walker.
The winner of the 2019 Telstra Art Award is Djambawa Marawili AM with his work Journey to America.
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
“Look at the screen, I’m on my way to make heaven,” gargles the voice of a bodiless cubist head talking on a loop as you enter Fox Jensen Gallery.
“Each curator is unique like every artist is unique, I believe,” says Nici Cumpston, a leader in the Australian arts who holds the dual positions of Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Artistic Director of the annual TARNANTHI festival.
Blak Douglas has won the 2019 Kilgour Prize with his large graphic portrait of actress and singer Ursula Yovich.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
Desert Mob is a critical platform for the cultural and creative authority of desert artists—with artists driving new ways of making, collaborating, and innovating on their own terms, ensuring cultural knowledge is not just maintained but continually expanded through practice.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
Mundamurra Ngijinda Dulk—My Island Home at Cairns Art Gallery, is a landmark exhibition dedicated to the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, one of the most singular voices in Australian contemporary painting.
