ART + CLIMATE = CHANGE 2019, an initiative of CLIMARTE, is a festival held across numerous museums, galleries and public spaces in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
The National Portrait Gallery will be closed from 23 April until late-August 2019 while the building is under renovation.
Juanita Nielsen’s short life and unsolved disappearance has inspired movies, books, TV specials, newspaper articles, and now a multimedia installation by Sydney-based artist Zanny Begg titled The Beehive.
God this is tedious, my wife observed, and I had to agree – what is with Australia’s obsession with art? Everywhere you look in the media it’s art, art, art.
Our Common Bond brings together artists who face “being Australian in some circumstances and not being Australian in others,” says curator Olivia Welch. “They’re Australian, but not ‘enough’.”
Brook Andrew has announced the first 33 artists, creatives and collectives who will participate in the next BOS, many of whom are First Nations artists.
Penelope Cain’s Interregnum, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, is concerned with the past, present and future of coal, and more broadly the use and misuse of power.
Each artist has been awarded $100,000 as part of the Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship.
Bruno Booth’s latest work is the installation Hostile Infrastructure, created with the idea of showing what navigating day-to-day life is like for someone who uses a wheelchair.
“I use green in my work often as a metaphor for greener fields,” he says. “My grandparents immigrated to Australia for this very reason. To create a better life for themselves and their children.”
For The National, Tara Marynowsky has taken to “redirecting” a slew of 1990s film trailers, giving the female protagonists greater agency.
Recognised for writing and illustrating Australian children’s classics like The Rainbow Serpent, Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey fostered an understanding of Indigenous culture.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape.
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
In the cavernous spaces of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, the large-scale kinetic sculptures of Arcangelo Sassolino are teetering on the brink.
