Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello: Ecology, Art, Tradition
Arrente artist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello combines the traditional Aboriginal practice of weaving with the European practice of glass making.
Arrente artist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello combines the traditional Aboriginal practice of weaving with the European practice of glass making.
Jon Butt is a photographer in the most contemporary sense of the word. For Fieldcast, Butt’s solo exhibition at Bus Projects, the artist has produced work through means of destroying a scanner, a process that has allowed him to examine what he says are “the inherent artefacts of this destruction”.
Whether concealed or bare, skin is a political and corporeal covering that cannot be simply removed.
This year NAIDOC week starts with Tjungunutja: from having come together at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Every two years, since 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair has been a major event on the Australian arts calendar. But in 2016 the Fair was unceremoniously cancelled just six months before it was due to open. Now the Melbourne Art Fair is back with a new venue, new director and new vision for the future.
Their new collaboration, multi-channel video installation The Summation of Force, is a filmic love song to cricket, shot largely in their own backyard.
Congratulations to Chris Bond who has won the very first BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award (BMCAA).
“I have always believed that everyone has the right to be paid fairly, and on time, and on principle I understand and support artists who just say no.”
Louise Martin-Chew spoke to artist William Robinson about his return to still life painting, his love of music, and his two current solo shows.
If poets are the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world,’ Khadim Ali’s lyrical paintings are odes to the downtrodden.
Questions surrounding how we portray ourselves, and how we judge others, sit at the heart of Rona Green’s bold, yet strikingly simple, prints.
Neon, glass, mirror, metal and acrylic are placed in precarious relationships in Brendan Van Hek’s upcoming exhibition, the continual condition.
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.
Marking the Newcastle Art Galleries reopening with a large-scale commission for the windows on Derby Street, Maggie Hensel-Brown’s new commission is on display from 26 September.
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
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.
