Podcast: Simone Slee on Sculpture, Vulnerability and Failure
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.
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.
“Rembrandt and Vermeer are the artists everyone knows,” says Raissis. “But no doubt there’ll be lots of surprises, like the female painter Rachel Ruysch, whose floral still lifes are astonishing demonstrations of technical wizardry.”
Miranda Skoczek’s abstract paintings evoke old walls with layers of forms and shapes that emerge over time.
Curated by Andrew Varano, Remedial Works presents six artists who regulate and remediate, invoking an armoury of talismanic products and wellness strategies.
End of year graduate exhibitions are a heady mix of celebration and contemporary art perusing.
Artist and Activist Zanny Begg is the recipient of the $70,000 Artbank + ACMI Commission for her proposed video installation The Beehive.
Owen Leong is known for his subversive homoerotic self-portraits. He was commissioned to make a new work for the group show, The Unflinching Gaze: photo media & the male figure, currently on at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
Earlier this week the Australia Council for the Arts announced two key changes to how Australian participation in the Venice Biennale is managed.
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.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
to come together as water is the most recent iteration of Blue Assembly—the University of Queensland Art Museum’s multi-year project exploring our relationship to the ocean. Curated by Freja Carmichael, it calls for First Nations sovereignty over waterways.
Desert Mob is a critical platform for the cultural and creative authority of desert artists—with artists driving new ways of making, collaborating, and innovating on their own terms, ensuring cultural knowledge is not just maintained but continually expanded through practice.
