Amalia Pica was born in Argentina and is currently working in London. Her exhibition at the IMA is to be presented in two parts, but her first solo in Australia is not the beginning of her relationship with Brisbane.
Western Australian artist Jana Vodesil-Baruffi has won the $50,000 2017 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with her aptly titled work, Black Swan. The Black Swan Prize is now in its 11th year.
Melissa King became CEO of Craft Victoria in July 2017. Prior to joining the organisation, King was working with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Congolese born artist Pierre Mukeba has won the non-acquisitive $15,000 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize for his suite of figurative textile works.
Born in Adelaide in 1963, Mira Gojak pursued science initially, with degrees in both Zoology and Psychology. She talks about a kind of restlessness that took hold while on practical placement, which necessitated a change of tack – in 1989, she moved to Melbourne to study painting at the Victorian College (then located in Prahran).
For Simone Slee the perfect sculpture is the sculpture that ‘fails’. These failures come in many guises; sometimes her works are left to the fallibility of humans, cucumbers and rocks.
Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscapes, curated by Sioux Garside, will survey over 40 years of the artist’s practice, combining work over several generations, from both private and public collections.
Jenny Orchard has won the National Self-Portrait Prize 2017 for her earthenware figure Self Portrait as a Multispecies Activist.
Romancing the skull at the Art Gallery of Ballarat explores the ongoing visual appeal of the human skull, showing works from the Middle Ages to now.
Claudia Nicholson has been announced as the 2017 Create NSW and Artspace Fellow for emerging artists.
“Rembrandt and Vermeer are the artists everyone knows,” says Raissis. “But no doubt there’ll be lots of surprises, like the female painter Rachel Ruysch, whose floral still lifes are astonishing demonstrations of technical wizardry.”
Miranda Skoczek’s abstract paintings evoke old walls with layers of forms and shapes that emerge over time.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
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 glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly, now on display at Adelaide Botanic Garden, speak to the power and pitfalls of visual pleasure in an increasingly contested world.
The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.
In Form and feeling, The Art Gallery of Western Australia takes key pieces of early 20th-century modern British and Australian painting from their collection and presents them alongside preparatory sketches and drawings, systematically creating a narrative of how a painting comes to be.
