Beyond Bling!
Beyond Bling! is the third in the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Culture Juice series of popular culture exhibitions.
Beyond Bling! is the third in the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Culture Juice series of popular culture exhibitions.
Throughout her career Jasmine Targett has worked with esteemed researchers and organisations, including NASA, and used their research and technology in her work.
Can you have too much of a good thing? William Kentridge seems determined to find out in his survey show, William Kentridge: that which we do not remember, at Art Gallery of New South Wales.
“What do you say when you’re not a painter? Say you’re a video artist – how do you explain that to your accountant? Your mechanic?”
In Hito Steyerl’s immersive video installation Factory of the Sun, the gallery’s dark walls, floor and ceiling are illuminated by a grid, lines glowing a cold blue.
In this latest Art Guide podcast, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, a Yamatji Nyoongar man from Western Australia with Dutch and Scottish migrant history, talks about his curatorial and consultancy roles. But he’s careful to point out that he sees himself less as a voice of authority and more as a conduit.
Sera Waters talked with Sheridan Coleman about dated craft fads, the silences of Australian history, and her current residency and upcoming shows from a squashy velveteen divan, amid skeins of pastel yarn.
One of the first things you will notice when entering Eva Rothschild’s exhibition Kosmos at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is the monumental scale of the works. Stark, formalist forms in black metal and concrete dominate your view.
Congratulations to Akil Ahamat who has won the $10,000 non-acquisitive John Fries Award, administered by the Copyright Agency.
Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis present the East in its everyday hues rather than as the fabled other.
What does your life weigh? This is the unspoken question that resides at the heart of Alex Seton’s exhibition Cargo at Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney.
Karen Quinlan has been appointed as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
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.
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.
This year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary marks the launch of Photo Sydney, a presentation that brings together the country’s most acclaimed photographers and gives the medium —and its relevance to our cultural moment—the attention it deserves.
Desert Mob is a critical platform for the cultural and creative authority of desert artists—with artists driving new ways of making, collaborating, and innovating on their own terms, ensuring cultural knowledge is not just maintained but continually expanded through practice.
