Frances Barrett, Giselle Stanborough and Sally Rees win Katthy Cavaliere Fellowships
Each artist has been awarded $100,000 as part of the Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship.
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.
Justine Varga has won the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, taking out the $30,000 award with Photogenic drawing, 2018, a piece that blurs the boundaries between drawing and photography.
Love, Displaced functions just as well as a general survey of video artists with strong, idiomatic voices as it does as an exploration of compassion in contemporary culture.
A master of optical illusion, M.C. Escher (1898–1972) was known for his mathematically inspired prints, which explore perspective, reflection, symmetry and tessellation.
Edmund Capon, who has died at the age of 78, served for 33 years as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), an institution with which his name remains indelibly linked.
Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz describe the link between their art practices as a feeling of “abundance within sparseness.”
The Melbourne-based painter’s new exhibition at Despard Gallery in Hobart, Time Traveller, features characters and elements that are peculiar yet oddly familiar.
The Lyon family throws open the doors to its newly minted Housemuseum Galleries with the aptly titled exhibition, Enter.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Wollongong Art Gallery, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
In Volle au Fond, Melbourne based artist Yvette Coppersmith incorporates multiple mediums—tapestry, painting, jewellery, film and poetry—to reimagine the myth of Circe, a magical female being brought to life in Homer’s classical text, The Odyssey.
They might have been continents apart, but visual artists Man Ray and Max Dupain were aligned in their experimental vision, as a major exhibition at the Heide attests.
