Next week a group of artists will present a petition to the National Gallery of Victoria demanding that the gallery sever its ties with Wilson Security, a firm it accuses of “violently enforcing” the incarceration of refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
Two private donors have stepped forward to pledge money to ensure Castlemaine Art Museum will remain open to the public.
Throughout August the SALA Festival will present the work of 6282 artists across 560 venues in Adelaide and the surrounding regions.
For its first exhibition, Science Gallery Melbourne is filling the Frank Tate Building with blood. Or, more actually, artworks which respond to the red stuff.
Future Eaters at Monash University Museum of Art considers not only what it means to make sculpture in our current digital age, but how sculpture connects to technology and the future.
South Australian writer Zoe Freney met with painter Deidre But-Husaim to talk about their shared interest in the potential of bees, both practical and metaphorical.
Congratulations to Mitch Cairns who has taken out the 2017 Archibald Prize for portraiture with his painting of partner, and fellow artist, Agatha Gothe-Snape.
The End of Time. The Beginning of Time, which closed in June, was the final show at Gertrude Contemporary in the street that gave the art gallery its name.
For her solo show Blood on Silk: Last Seen Davies has used 800 square metres of handmade silk paper to kit-out the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre turbine hall, transforming the space into five makeshift hospital rooms.
It was Walter Benjamin who said that artworks have an aura: a quality to do with imagined closeness to the artist.
Congratulations to Australia photomedia artist Pat Brassington who has won the inaugural Don Macfarlane Prize.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s suburban dream of Broadacre City is the nightmare within which many of us in the developed Western world now seem to live.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.
A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction.
The quietly evocative work of James Tylor reimagines imperial legacies and illuminates a hidden past. Turrangka… In The Shadows, Tylor’s touring retrospective exhibition, is now showing at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.
Now showing at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, the 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial: Residue + Response, showcases 25 diverse artworks and considers what contemporary textiles can be.
