Artists use text in Word
Word, a group exhibition of 28 artists at Hugo Michell Gallery in Adelaide, is an in-house curated showcase of text-based work by Australian artists.
Word, a group exhibition of 28 artists at Hugo Michell Gallery in Adelaide, is an in-house curated showcase of text-based work by Australian artists.
The Melbourne-based artist Mirka Mora has died at the age of 90. “Mirka was a central figure in the story of Heide, and in Melbourne’s cultural life,” says Lesley Harding, artistic director of Heide Museum of Modern Art, where Mora’s next exhibition, Pas de Deux – Drawings and Dolls, had already been scheduled to open in October.
Australian Muslim Artists showcases the diversity of the contemporary Muslim experience in Australia, and in the current political and media climate, that is something that should be celebrated.
Yhonnie Scarce has taken out the 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA) with her porcelain and glass work Servant and Slave, 2018. The $20,000 award is acquisitive and Scarce’s piece will join the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) permanent collection.
Painter Charles Blackman died on 20 August in Sydney, just eight days after celebrating his 90th birthday. A statement released by the Charles Blackman Foundation confirmed that the artist passed away “as the first morning bird called in song” surrounded by family after a long-term battle with dementia.
Congratulations to Linda Marrinon who has been awarded the second annual $50,000 Don Macfarlane Prize. The Melbourne-based artist, who first came to prominence with her paintings in the 1980s, is now best known for figurative terracotta sculptures.
While many aspects of running a commercial gallery have changed since the 1960s, some things have remained the same. Two stalwarts of Melbourne’s art scene, Bill Nuttall and Stuart Purves, reminisce about the early days.
Chiharu Shiota returns, interlacing thread to form a phenomenal room-sized installation at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Tai Snaith takes a look at two pairs of artists who have formed intergenerational, informal mentorships, both sharing the love of humour.
Sam Field’s paintings are like colonialist postcards from a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape. His terrains are assembled by combining national logos and images – from vintage Channel Nine logos and football teams, to Blundstone boots and lyrebirds.
In her solo show Tertium Quid (loosely translated from Latin as ‘the third unknown’) O’Neil presented four large collages assembled from found photographic images.
Art Guide Australia’s Louise Martin-Chew attended the 2018 NAVA Future/Forward forum in Canberra. She reports on efforts to get art back on the political agenda.
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.
For contemporary jeweller Kyoko Hashimoto, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia marks a shift in her approach to materials and method, with a renewed focus on sustainability.
A search for beauty is behind Skin tight, the first solo exhibition in Australia for the American artist Tschabalala Self, whose works (on view at ACCA) seek to alter the power dynamic between viewer and subject.
For its 25th edition, the Biennale of Sydney has announced additional artists, project highlights and initial programming, running free to the public from 14 March—14 June, 2026.
