From The Fox: NGV Contemporary to the Sydney Modern Project, to major overhauls of regional art spaces, hundreds of millions of dollars are being funnelled into museum buildings. But are these new buildings being privileged over artists, or is this the future investment we need?
The brilliant, blue bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) of Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr have seen growing acclaim for not only their formal qualities, but how they speak of Country and contemporary politics. Munuŋgurr’s latest exhibition is now showing at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Emu Sky invites audiences to reflect on the importance of respecting, resourcing and valuing Indigenous knowledge of Country. This vast exhibition, held at Melbourne University’s Old Quad, showcases work from more than 30 Aboriginal community members across south-eastern Australia. Learn the stories behind four featured artworks.
Congratulations to Margaret Rarru Garrawurra for winning the 2022 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). Her award-winning work powerfully references her cultural identity and the long-lasting relationships between Yolŋu people and the people of Indonesia—and it’s exhibiting in Darwin alongside other NATSIAA winners and finalists.
Bush Diwan takes as its departure point the remarkable life of Siva Singh. A Punjabi Sikh from India who migrated to Benalla in 1897, Singh left an immense legacy with his community leadership and civil rights activism. Five women artists at Benalla Art Gallery celebrate Singh’s life, alongside addressing wider social points.
David Fairbairn’s deeply felt, emotive portraits are a soulful meditation on ageing and companionship. For Drawn Together at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Fairbairn has brought new dimensions to his ongoing study of intimacy.
On June 5 1960, the Darwin paper The Sunday Mirror reported: A tribal painter, said to be more famous than the late Albert Namatjira, has just died at Warrabri welfare settlement, near Tennant Creek. He was Nat Warano, of whose skill few white men had heard.
Famous for her exquisite large-scale installations created from thousands of delicate red and black threads, Chiharu Shiota’s largest survey show to date is showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.
Retracing Russell Drysdale’s 1944 journey to remote Australia allowed Caroline Zilinsky to confront a male dominated version of the outback. Zilinsky’s new show at Nanda\Hobbs responds to this visual history.
Sunrise Road in Sydney’s Palm Beach was where the acclaimed English-Australian artist Bruce Munro was living when he began creating in the 1980s. Now, Munro is returning to the beginning with From Sunrise Road at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
“Media puts an expectation on mums to always be positive”: Sheree Dohnt’s paintings at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery show the joys and challenges of motherhood, from measuring success to what women miss about life before children.
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.
A Delicate Terrain, a new exhibition of works drawn from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, looks at our relationship with the environment through the lens of contemporary art.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place.
