Harold Thomas, the artist who designed the Australian Aboriginal flag in 1971, has been declared the overall winner of the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
A low-grade anxiety simmered under the surface in The Fraud Complex, perhaps a pre-emptive emotion, as Next Wave was dealt a blow with the loss of its Australia Council funding.
The Uncanny Valley is an alchemical and vibrant exhibition pondering the complexities of existence.
The title of Julia Robinson’s latest body of work, The Song of Master John Goodfellow, refers to French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelais’s notorious satirical novels The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.
The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF) and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) will amalgamate.
Ari Athans began her professional life as a working geologist and these concerns permeate her paintings.
Rather than focusing on the object of the photograph, Jafri takes on the subjectivity of a topic that, historically, has been deemed rather concrete: the days of national independence from colonial powers around the world.
Contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente transforms Carriageworks into an opulent village.
Western Australian artist Miriam Stannage has spent a lifetime interrogating the world through her camera.
For the first major survey of contemporary Australian painting in a decade, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art took an unexpected curatorial cue.
Refugees at Casula Powerhouse sheds light on to one of the most highly publicised areas of Australian politics: the ongoing refugee crisis.
Dug and Digging With is the result of a 12-month collaboration between emerging curators Katie Barber and Stan Mahoney and seven visual artists, writers and theorists whose practices are process-based and research-driven.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
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.
For Chinese painter Gao Ping, the interplay between shadow and light is as much a symbol of our relationship with history as it is a visual technique. The artist’s latest exhibition Between the Shadow and the Soul, curated by Dr Luise Guest, is now showing at Vermilion Art.
The quietly evocative work of James Tylor reimagines imperial legacies and illuminates a hidden past. Turrangka… In The Shadows, Tylor’s touring retrospective exhibition, is now showing at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.
