Claire Lambe weaves an uneasy narrative through a warp of found archives, personal records, films, studio documentation, architecture and design. In the formidable expanse of ACCA the installations in her solo show, Mother Holding Something Horrific, seem almost restrained.
“I like air conditioning, and I like looking at art, so visiting your gallery for the recent summer blockbuster exhibition seemed like a good idea.”
In Familiar Stranger, Australian and international artists grapple with the at times unsettling act of coming home.
In a world where one of the only consistencies is that there’ll be more bad news, Ash Keating has created a meditative space for viewers to find a brief respite.
Six Melbourne artists will exhibit new lithographic prints in Adelaide and Sydney this April.
Through a series of saucy, humorous and energetic paintings, Josh Robbins explores the performance of desire by portraying birds in the act of seduction.
Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundt add an antipodean twist to their global focus at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, selecting Willem de Rooij and Fiona Tan to kick off the 2017 exhibition program.
Congratulations to Gary Grealy, winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017.
My first experience of Cementa in Kandos, NSW, (at the base of Combamolang Mountain) was Cementa 2015, its second iteration. The Twilight Girls (Jane Polkinghorne and myself) were invited to exhibit and we were collaborating with Mark Shorter in his guise as Renny Kodgers.
Through a combination of archival material and newly commissioned works, Orange: Sannyas in Fremantle considers the nature of devotion and religious experience.
As a conceptual and pop artist, a photographer and a painter, as well as an idiosyncratic art critic for two broadsheet newspapers, Robert Rooney wielded influence.
An overview of contemporary Australian art, Sydney’s The National: New Australian Art 2017 includes crucial works by Indigenous artists, Karla Dickens and Archie Moore.
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 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.
In his latest exhibition, now showing at Bett Gallery, Postmodern painter and writer Imants Tillers is influenced by a variety of sources including the metaphysical style of Italian artist Georgio de Chirico.
The glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly, now on display at Adelaide Botanic Garden, speak to the power and pitfalls of visual pleasure in an increasingly contested world.
