Cement Fondu celebrates Suburbia
Cement Fondu, a new multi-disciplinary gallery, has opened in Sydney. Its inaugural exhibition Suburbia celebrates and unpacks the peripheries of the city.
Cement Fondu, a new multi-disciplinary gallery, has opened in Sydney. Its inaugural exhibition Suburbia celebrates and unpacks the peripheries of the city.
The Australia Council has announced artist Angelica Mesiti and curator Juliana Engberg as the Australian representatives for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
The two-person art collective position TERROR NULLIUS as an unwieldy road movie, using acts of sampling and appropriation to tour through, while also challenging, white Australian cinema and history.
The Glover Prize for landscape painting has been awarded to Halinka Orszulok, a Jameberoo, New South Wales based artist.
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial, a showcase of largely international contemporary art and design, is an exercise in mass spectacle, theatre and immersion.
Kenny Pittock’s work seems relatable and commands us to look at the minutiae of every life. In the latest episode of our conversation series he talks about the organic use of humour in his work, while also touching upon his upcoming drawing residency at Deakin University Art Gallery.
Dreams and the subconscious are themes Joel Crosswell returns to often. His drawings and sculptures reference biographical events with a dreamlike sensibility where abstract elements of the natural world filter through his images.
Visual artists Pat Brassington and Nigel Helyer have both been honoured with awards from the Australia Council in 2018.
Lisa Sewards’s interest in parachutes stems from family lore. Her mother, who spent several childhood years in a European refugee camp, related a memory from that time of finding a silk parachute left over from the war.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” or so goes the oft-quoted first line of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between. But when it comes to video art, the past is more like a galaxy far, far away. This is made abundantly clear in Cinemania, a survey show spanning three decades of video and photography by New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana.
In its inaugural exhibition, Buxton Contemporary is looking into the future, with art as a Wellsian device, and artists, the soothsayers.
Congratulations to Ceara Metlikovec for winning the 2018 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
In its 18th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates photographic portraiture from emerging and established artists, highlighting what it means to be Australian, through photographs of its people.
In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour.
