Expansive and wide-ranging, Vile Bodies offers the opportunity to consider our present human condition in order to gauge our possible futures.
It is the meditative, vulnerable and unforced qualities (and not necessarily Japan) that define Koji Ryui’s abstract sculptural works.
In July, the directors of much-loved Sydney artist run initiative MOP Projects announced that the long-running gallery will close in December this year after more than 400 exhibitions which have supported the careers of up to 800 artists.
Ross Woodrow explores the hidden plumbing in the European fountain tradition, the way the human body operates, and Australia’s position both on the globe and culturally.
This exhibition, on loan from the British Museum, has already toured to the Middle East, Japan, Taiwan and Western Australia. Now Canberra hosts this travelling exhibition that covers over 200 million years in one room.
Like the fabled gingerbread house, Pip & Pop’s dream-bright saccharine creations are darker than they first appear.
Rather than try to encapsulate more than 60 years in a survey show, the gallery is focusing on one decade of his practice, from Bigger Trees Near Warter to now.
The exhibition Sappers & Shrapnel: contemporary art and the art of the trenches is timed to coincide with Remembrance Day, 11 November.
Nick Cave is known for his Soundsuits. These elaborate costumes are an idiosyncratic mix of haute couture and politics: they respond to racial tensions and inequities by both obscuring and celebrating racial identity with beads and bling.
In Stephen Dupont’s The White Sheet Series it is the curious bystanders standing adrift that captivate.
It’s fairly common these days for artists to combine their artistic practice with the role of curator. Brigid Noone explores the tension of this hybrid model in the role of artist and curator for the exhibition Major Tender.
With a keen eye on Darwinian theory, Mona’s David Walsh gathers four scientist-philosophers turned curators to ruminate on art’s beginnings.
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.
Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.
Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
