For his latest show at STATION Gallery (Sydney), Michael Staniak is expressing his acute awareness of how screen and digital media influence our understanding of the world.
Drawing together 19 artists and collectives, Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art is a celebration of women, people of colour and LGBTIQA+ artists. All share a connection to Queensland.
From their commercial photography studio in Devonport, Bert Robinson and his son Albert produced over 100,000 photographic negatives between 1927 to 1975, including portraits, landscapes and local events. Devonport Regional Gallery is exploring these photographs in Attempted Portraits.
Nicola Scott’s work is informed by tensions between the materiality and history of abstract painting, alongside contemporary digital and virtual spaces. Her current exhibition at Onespace Gallery urges audiences to question the collision between the organic and synthetic.
Mark Valenzuela powerfully interrogates colonisation through his Filipino-Australian identity. For his new exhibition, as part of South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival, Valenzuela tackles how personal identity is entwined with the legacies of geopolitical history.
Archie Moore’s dynamic and rigorous practice immerses audiences into personal and transgenerational memory, challenging the structures of the colonial past and present. A major solo by Moore, the fourth iteration of his series of large-scale architectural installations, is showing at Gertrude Contemporary.
In their pioneering coloured linocut prints, Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) and Eveline Syme (1888-1961) captured the flux and excitement of an era of rapid change. The exhibition Spowers & Syme is now showing at Geelong Gallery.
“I was sort of staggered,” says writer Jennifer Higgie. “Why hadn’t I ever been taught about these women? Why weren’t they included in mainstream art histories?” Higgie is talking about the marginalisation of women in art history—and it’s something she speaks to in our latest podcast episode.
“I’m drawn to the unassuming ordinariness of the everyday.” With a solo show at Linden New Art, Honor Freeman creates exquisite, tactile ceramic objects, often crafting domestic items like bars of soap and buckets. We asked her 20 quick questions—everything from creating and mourning, to her favourite colour to work with.
There’s a meditative, otherworldly quality to Rae Begley’s photographs, which are moving for their depiction of diverse, geological landscapes. View, in pictures, Begley’s On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing now showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
From the Iraq War to natural disasters, since the 1970s acclaimed artist Susan Norrie continues to show us scenes of tragedy and mystery. Now her work is being situated alongside other contemporary female artists at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Kate Vassallo’s Ripple marks the conclusion of Artereal Gallery’s exhibition program, as the Sydney gallery is closing its doors after nearly two decades.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery takes us deeper into the life of the often-mythologised artist Frida Kahlo, through her personal photographs, clothing and objects, borrowed from Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house museum in Mexico.
Using a hand coil pinch technique, the pots created by the Hermannsburg Potters of Western Arrarnta in Central Australia illustrate the lived histories of the artists and their surrounding Country. Their latest creations are now showing at Bett Gallery in Hobart.
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.
Now showing at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, the 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial: Residue + Response, showcases 25 diverse artworks and considers what contemporary textiles can be.
First held in 1990 at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, Desert Mob is the oldest of Australia’s thriving annual program of Aboriginal art fairs. With its 30th anniversary coming up in September 2020, Kate Hennessy looks back on Desert Mob 2019.
