Toby Fehily spoke to Terstappen about her life, her exhibition and the unique role of art in spreading awareness about animals.
“This seemed like a good thing, a hybridisation of commercial and private approaches, and perhaps this is the future we’ll see elsewhere as major commercial galleries become private foundations and artist-run spaces are pushed out into the suburbs.”
For an artist who occupies herself with ideas surrounding training and submission, Lou Hubbard can’t quite rein in time.
Congratulations to Sam Bloor for winning the 2016 Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) Print Award.
In the group show Nuclear, 50 diverse artists are linked by their atomic experiences.
At the centre of the exhibition is renowned Dutch artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s video work No False Echoes, which deals directly with Dutch colonial history in Indonesia.
Unknown Land is a portrait of one historical perspective; the European gaze, freshly fixed upon Western Australia, exploring and describing the land with flourishes of colonial poetry.
Almost 20 years ago as a young art student, Jonathan Jones, of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi nations of south-east Australia, went to the Australian Museum to research the origins of his people in the Murray-Darling region.
Even when depicting the inhospitable terrain of the Simpson Desert or the salt-encrusted waters of Lake Eyre, Olsen’s work teems with the suggestion of vibrant life.
Radicality doesn’t necessarily sit in one temporality or in one action, but spans, as the exhibition portrays, across histories and through consequences.
Melbourne-based artist Valerie Sparks has won the non-acquisitive $25,000 MGA Bowness Photography Prize with her work titled Prospero’s Island – North East.
Justine Varga’s photographs capture the briefest moments. In Memoire she seizes, stretches and accumulates that instant.
Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.
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.
Ahead of his major retrospective at Jan Murphy Gallery, Ben Quilty spoke with fellow painter Georgia Spain about wrestling with mythology, the contradictions of joy and suffering, and a belief in art as an antidote to an increasingly volatile world.
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.
The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the next instalment of the Winter Masterpieces series, coming in June 2025, will be a return to French Impressionism—an exhibition from 2021 that closed as soon as it opened due to the global pandemic.
