A Show About Nothing
Unafraid to fall, fail or question, Elizabeth Newman finds a rougher, unflinchingly honest edge to her paintings.
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Unafraid to fall, fail or question, Elizabeth Newman finds a rougher, unflinchingly honest edge to her paintings.
Maria Kontis uses drawing to change the past, to tell her own stories.
Cairns-based artist Daniel O’Shane has won the National Works on Paper Prize with his piece Aib Ene Zogo ni Pat (Story of Aib and the sacred waterhole).
This year the Centre for Contemporary Photography turns 30. Over the decades, gallery directors have had to constantly reassess their strategies to keep up with shifting attitudes towards the medium of photography.
Richly atmospheric objects, art and artefacts, both new and old, come together at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Louise Hearman has won the annual Archibald Prize with her portrait of ex-pat Aussie comedian Barry Humphries.
At the heart of this exhibition are three figurative works made in 2014. These were also key to his survey exhibition at Brisbane’s QUT Art Museum in 2015, and they reflect his activism and the ongoing trauma of the anti-communist purges in Indonesia in 1965.
While Robert Hannaford is well known for his portraiture – he’s a frequent Archibald finalist – it’s only part of the picture. His oeuvre also includes sculptures, landscapes, still-lifes and nudes.
In the newly minted Museum of Perth, WA artist Sioux Tempestt reinterprets Perth’s architectural history, its grime and gleam, truth and invention, for her new exhibition Chronicle.
Dark Matter is a solo show by artist Julia Davis which explores the effects of time in relation to the body and the material world.
It’s Our Thing is inspired by some of Australia’s founding hip-hop crews and artists who worked in and around Blacktown in the 1990s.
The 2018 Biennale of Sydney will be led by its first artistic director from Asia, Mami Kataoka.
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.
Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.
Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
