Making History: Nolan at the Newsagent
The idea of a series of Sidney Nolan paintings hanging in a newsagent’s shop window seems rather quaint.
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The idea of a series of Sidney Nolan paintings hanging in a newsagent’s shop window seems rather quaint.
Showcasing the work of its founding members, the exhibition is packed with works from the 1980s up to the present day. The Boomalli Ten feels like a celebration not just of those 10 artists but more broadly of the Indigenous Australian art now flourishing in the post-colonial present.
Amalia Pica was born in Argentina and is currently working in London. Her exhibition at the IMA is to be presented in two parts, but her first solo in Australia is not the beginning of her relationship with Brisbane.
Western Australian artist Jana Vodesil-Baruffi has won the $50,000 2017 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with her aptly titled work, Black Swan. The Black Swan Prize is now in its 11th year.
Melissa King became CEO of Craft Victoria in July 2017. Prior to joining the organisation, King was working with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Congolese born artist Pierre Mukeba has won the non-acquisitive $15,000 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize for his suite of figurative textile works.
Born in Adelaide in 1963, Mira Gojak pursued science initially, with degrees in both Zoology and Psychology. She talks about a kind of restlessness that took hold while on practical placement, which necessitated a change of tack – in 1989, she moved to Melbourne to study painting at the Victorian College (then located in Prahran).
For Simone Slee the perfect sculpture is the sculpture that ‘fails’. These failures come in many guises; sometimes her works are left to the fallibility of humans, cucumbers and rocks.
Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscapes, curated by Sioux Garside, will survey over 40 years of the artist’s practice, combining work over several generations, from both private and public collections.
Jenny Orchard has won the National Self-Portrait Prize 2017 for her earthenware figure Self Portrait as a Multispecies Activist.
Romancing the skull at the Art Gallery of Ballarat explores the ongoing visual appeal of the human skull, showing works from the Middle Ages to now.
Claudia Nicholson has been announced as the 2017 Create NSW and Artspace Fellow for emerging artists.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.
At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration. A retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the evolution of her practice.
The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) celebrates 19 years of bringing local and international audiences together on Larrakia Country.
