During his lifetime Alun Leach-Jones influenced many younger artists and had more than 82 solos shows. In May 2018 Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne will hold a memorial exhibition of the new paintings the artist was working on when he died.
A collaboration between Sydney’s Artspace and London’s Institute of Contemporary Art – Helen Johnson’s Warm Ties paints a confronting picture of Australia’s colonial legacy.
Art’s gatekeepers have given colour a bad rap. Katharina Grosse seeks to rehabilitate the audience from the effects of chromophobia.
Exhibiting painting and sculpture by contemporary Australian artists, Unreal City includes works by Tarik Ahlip, Bonita Bub, Mitch Cairns, Lewis Fidock, Thomas Jeppe, Anna Kristensen, Sanne Mestrom and Joshua Petherick.
Coinciding with QUT Art Museum’s inaugural holiday portraiture program, Draw It. Code It., Portray and Play is an exhibition of diverse figurative work focused on people and faces.
Artspace is embarking on a yearlong project with no gallery, no borders and no holds barred.
It’s an almost impossible task to pick one exhibition from a rich and varied year of visual arts offerings. While everyone is moved, motivated and impressed by different things we put the challenge to a number of curators, artists and directors to nominate their favourite show for 2017.
John A Douglas has created an imaginative correspondence between Dante’s journey through hell and Douglas’ own chronic illness and transplant experience.
By conflating the political, psychological and biological, O’Callaghan anchors the human body as a site to investigate protest and resistance.
The Score took music notation as a site of translation between sound, colour, speech, movement, dance and line – and as a way to conceptualise cross-disciplinary practice.
Detail is important in a visual imagination, but it also punctuates an individual’s memory. This exhibition draws together artworks made since 2002 by Noel McKenna that are also highly personal and idiosyncratic maps.
Ray Hughes was a legend of the Sydney art world with his loud ties, an assortment of hats, and a penchant for corduroy, as well as the services of a Beijing suit tailor of dubious taste.
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.
Melbourne-born figurative artist and ceramicist Rob McHaffie takes a global view of human idiosyncrasy. His biggest exhibition to date, now showing at Bendigo Art Gallery, covers over a decade of his painting practice.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
