Portray and Play
Coinciding with QUT Art Museum’s inaugural holiday portraiture program, Draw It. Code It., Portray and Play is an exhibition of diverse figurative work focused on people and faces.
Coinciding with QUT Art Museum’s inaugural holiday portraiture program, Draw It. Code It., Portray and Play is an exhibition of diverse figurative work focused on people and faces.
Artspace is embarking on a yearlong project with no gallery, no borders and no holds barred.
It’s an almost impossible task to pick one exhibition from a rich and varied year of visual arts offerings. While everyone is moved, motivated and impressed by different things we put the challenge to a number of curators, artists and directors to nominate their favourite show for 2017.
John A Douglas has created an imaginative correspondence between Dante’s journey through hell and Douglas’ own chronic illness and transplant experience.
By conflating the political, psychological and biological, O’Callaghan anchors the human body as a site to investigate protest and resistance.
The Score took music notation as a site of translation between sound, colour, speech, movement, dance and line – and as a way to conceptualise cross-disciplinary practice.
Detail is important in a visual imagination, but it also punctuates an individual’s memory. This exhibition draws together artworks made since 2002 by Noel McKenna that are also highly personal and idiosyncratic maps.
Ray Hughes was a legend of the Sydney art world with his loud ties, an assortment of hats, and a penchant for corduroy, as well as the services of a Beijing suit tailor of dubious taste.
The full list of artists who will participate in the 21st Biennale of Sydney has been announced.
Unfinished Business tracks the course of feminist art making in Australia, proposing new ways of addressing feminism’s legacy and trajectory.
Summer often seems to herald an omnipresence of board-based activities. Taking this a step further is Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery’s latest exhibition which prompts the meeting of board-based subcultures with contemporary art.
It’s sprawling, it’s free and it will likely cement NGV’s place in the top 20 most attended museums in the world. What can we expect?
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.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale was a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead. kith and kin is now on display at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until 18 October 2025.
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape.
