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Obsessed: Compelled to Make
What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
Anna Dunnill
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What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
Dale Harding collaborates for the first time with his mother Kate in Through a Lens of Visitation at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Together they explore their relationship to Country and ponder issues of access.
Centuries-old Persian arts and crafts meet Florence Broadhurst’s swinging sixties wallpapers as Iranzamin, at the Powerhouse (MAAS), tells stories of empire and immigration.
When British designer Mary Quant led a 1960s fashion revolution, she would forever change how women dressed.
Georgia Banks has eligible contestants lining up…for a chance to win exclusive control over the artist’s funeral and remains.
Not everyone can spot beauty in a recipe, but Nadia Hernández has the heart of a poet.
From cartoon characters to fetishistic obsessions and aqua blue swimming pools, Rob McLeish channels online imagery into a suite of intense drawings in his solo show Distortions at Neon Parc – Brunswick.
From individuals to collectives, female philanthropy is a major driving force in the Australian arts. But who are these women? And why don’t we know more about them?
The 2021 Australia Council Awards honoured Vivienne Binns OAM for her outstanding commitment to Visual Arts, Cat Jones for her contribution to Emerging and Experimental Arts, and Marianne Wobcke received the Australia Council Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery has reopened with a new exhibition centred on an elemental force: light.
In her newest work, Angela Tiatia uses the myth of narcissus to hold a mirror to how we live today.
With the first participants announced, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is centred on rīvus, a Latin word which can be translated as ‘stream’.
“It starts with Elizabethan and Tudor period portraits and goes right through to contemporary times.” The National Portrait Gallery in London has loaned 80 works to our National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, capturing portraiture through the ages.
Shirley Purdie’s newest paintings at Olsen Gallery are ancestral stories of Country and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming), but also sites and moments that resonate with Purdie, from her birthplace of Mabel Downs Station to her family history.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.
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