Blindside’s Summer Studio residency allows artists to develop their work over a three-week period during the art world’s quieter time, culminating in an exhibition in mid-January.
Karan Singh’s graphic works are disorienting and calming at once. His practice, while beginning with illustration, has evolved into creating moving graphics and more recently, 3D immersive, responsive spatial work.
Who’s Afraid of Colour? presents daringly innovative senior artists who are at the forefront of indigenous art practice.
Leonard French, who died on 10 January at the age of 88, was the man behind the iconic stained glass ceiling in the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Remarkably, this monumental undertaking, which was unveiled in 1968, was his first effort in the medium.
Many of Amor’s shadowy images have a cinematic quality. They read like film stills, fragments of a greater drama.
It is not quiet in Locust Jones’s studio. Rolling news coverage reverberates from every device. As he absorbs this torrent of information, Jones constantly draws, paints and sculpts.
One is the meticulously planned crucible of Australia’s bureaucracy, the other an ocean-licked, sunburnt leisureplex.
Light Geist presents three new commissions by artists working with video projection.
Exhibiting as part of Sydney Festival, Vernon Ah Kee vows not to shy away from thorny questions.
Based on an idea by French philosopher Paul Virilio, EXIT draws on a quarter of a century’s worth of scientific data to vividly animate the world’s hot spots of deforestation, rising seas and mass migration as a result of global warming.
As 2016 draws to a close it’s time to rest, re-group and get ready for the New Year. Here are some great shows to look forward to in 2017.
Leo Coyte’s works have been likened to album art, rising out of a recognisable punk, DIY aesthetic, and buzzing with tension between abstract and representational.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
