Helen Britton is known for creating bright jewels that are just as likely to include recycled plastics as glittering precious gems.
Born and raised in Perth, Rebecca Baumann is a young artist whose career has seen a steady ascent since she graduated from Curtin University in 2003. Residencies in Europe and the US, and most recently in New Zealand, have proven to be fecund endeavours for her.
For former solder and dissenter Guo Jian, rubbish-choked rivers bear witness to both the environmental and cultural damage of consumerism.
The board of the Heide Museum of Modern Art today announced that it has appointed Dr Natasha Cica as its new director and CEO.
Considering that Tasmania is an island state with a convict history, one would expect to come across a pirate or two in the archives.
Yesterday it was announced that the Lyon Housemuseum in Melbourne’s leafy suburb of Kew would undergo a major expansion with the $14.5 million project financed by the benefactors – the Lyon family.
In September 2014 our news screens and feeds were filled with images of Hong Kong’s high-rise streets thronged with tens of thousands of protesters.
The board of the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) has appointed Cherie McNair as the new director. She will commence on 8 February 2017.
For the artist Lisa Roet, looking at apes is like looking in the mirror. For her the reflection we see when we gaze at our simian cousins is both murky and revealing; it tells us something about our inner selves and our broader culture.
“The redback spider, she’s so fierce looking and so beautiful,” says Barton, who sees the surreal RED as a celebration of raw female power. “She’s really a weapon, so she speaks to me aesthetically.”
Sugar Spin at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, delivers the colour, celebration and sweetness befitting a 10th birthday party.
Here we’ve selected a handful of Australian publications, from both independent and large publishers, to take on your summer travels.
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 theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.
The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers.
In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost.
Using a hand coil pinch technique, the pots created by the Hermannsburg Potters of Western Arrarnta in Central Australia illustrate the lived histories of the artists and their surrounding Country. Their latest creations are now showing at Bett Gallery in Hobart.
