Going Coastal
When contemporary artists were sent on a two-week residency to the seaside town of Portsea, they found both splendour and darkness.
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When contemporary artists were sent on a two-week residency to the seaside town of Portsea, they found both splendour and darkness.
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.
Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.
A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction.
The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.
Buoyed by rich feminist histories, the multifaceted work of Zanny Begg, who is now showing at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, reveals the possibility of paths not taken and the way age-old legacies persist.
Amanda Bell’s poignant new commission for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts transforms the heaviness of history and unsettles hierarchies of place.
Congratulations to Aisha Sherman-Noth, who has won the 2025 Glover Prize for Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist wins $80,000 for the painting, which depicts weeping birch and poplar trees along the Brooker Highway into Hobart.
