Andrew Nicholls walked the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, partied in Venice, wore britches and white makeup in the piazze and hiked up aching-to-erupt volcanoes. Hyperkulturemia collects the artist’s forays into the romance and revelry of the tour.
Elucidated with a level of technical finesse that Loxley describes as “dazzling,” Cassils’ work is fierce, raw and unflinching.
After Nature is filled with works that are aesthetically alluring and spectacular in scale.
Memento, comprising more than a dozen oil paintings, has an elegiac quality. Gannon says the works were mainly created from memory rather than setting up on site for an exercise in “look and put”.
Melbourne Design Week features over 170 events including exhibitions, screenings, talks, tours and workshops, spanning throughout NGV and greater Melbourne.
Piers Greville has won the 2019 Glover Prize, awarded for landscape paintings of Tasmania. The Melbourne-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with his bold graphic painting, Pedder Prime Cuts.
The set-up of Lydia Wegner’s staged photographs is unassuming. Cast from readymade materials the results are otherworldly.
When staff took five local artists through the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection to see what might grab them, the idea was to eventually have these emerging and mid-career artists show new drawing works in the gallery.
Fiona Abicare works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context.
Undercurrent seeks to broaden how we acknowledge the Frontier Wars and massacre sites which scar country.
Virtual reality and art are not often paired together, but last year Sydney-based artist Joan Ross took the plunge in this still-developing medium after being awarded the second Mordant Family VR Commission.
Ruth Cummins is interested in the symbolism attached to methods of domestic improvement.
In its 34th year, Primavera—the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual survey of Australian artists 35 and under—might be about to age out of itself, but with age it seems, comes wisdom and perspective.
Harnessing multiple disciplines across silk, paper and sound, Rainbow Chan’s solo show, Notations: Red Scale, connects with the women before her, re-animating existing histories in new light.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
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.
Drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s show Place Makers, reframes the artists—who just happen to be female.
For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.
