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David Goldblatt unblinkingly captured South African history over 70 years, yet his photographs reveal a universality of human experience
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David Goldblatt unblinkingly captured South African history over 70 years, yet his photographs reveal a universality of human experience
Sydney multimedia artist Alex Gawronski and Melbourne-based conceptual art duo Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have been awarded the 2018 fellowships by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).
Congratulations to Denis Beaubois who has been awarded the first Create NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) NSW Visual Arts Mid-Career/Established Fellowship.
For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.
Love takes many forms. In Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam, love is expressed through prayer, spirituality, hospitality, friendship, and sex. It is woven into textiles and adorned with gold leaf; shaped into silverware and glazed into tiles and pots.
Watters Gallery, which opened in 1964, is staging its final exhibition, a selection of figurative works from the estate of Tony Tuckson, a painter known primarily as a gifted abstractionist.
NSW-based artist and theatre designer Antoinette Barbouttis has won the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with a large charcoal drawing.
Sydney-based artist Julia Davis has taken out the $15,000 City of Devonport National Art Award: tidal.18 with a single channel video loop titled, Undercurrent, 2017.
With an ongoing attentiveness to questions of identity and performance, Lili Reynaud Dewar’s exhibition TEETH, GUMS, MACHINES, FUTURE, SOCIETY, looks at how bodies both carry history and respond to place.
The art that emerges here has little to do with wearability, instead it has generated work that may conceal the body as much as reveal it.
The early evening launch of Daniel Boyd’s Rainbow Serpent could not have been better timed. After stepping into the darkened gallery space, soft evening light spilling through circular cut-outs at the far end of the room immediately captures my attention.
Congratulations to Lynn Savery who has been awarded the 2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. The prize was the first portrait competition Savery entered, and she won the $150,000 with a portrait of herself and her dog.
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.
Grace Wood’s new exhibition for Heide Museum of Modern Art intertwines personal, familial, and artistic archives. Consisting of textile and digital collage, Wood traces lines of inheritance and influence to position the garden as a site of both personal and artistic cultivation.
Gaypalani Waṉambi has just won the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards of its kind.
Gabriela Burkhalter’s The Playground Project at Incinerator Gallery reinvents the typically serious installation space, inviting children to play, reminding us of its importance within the arts.
