“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.
Congratulations to senior Pitjantjatjara artist Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin for winning the 2022 Hadley’s Art Prize for a moving and intricate painting depicting the ancient Maku Tjukurpa (witchetty grub) songline from Mimili. Goodwin is the first woman to win the prize since it began in 2017.
There is an uncomfortable positioning of being both inside and outside the boundaries of control within relationships—and navigating such an in-betweenness drives Olivia Colja’s art at Kolbusz Space.
Iluwanti Ken and Betty Muffler are both celebrated senior Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artists and Ngangkari (traditional healers) for community and Country. Together, they join forces for a significant and powerful exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery. View, in pictures, Ken and Muffler’s evocative and illuminating works.
“I am absolutely interested in making an image worth looking at.” The first survey of Catherine Rogers’s photography, Evidence and The Visible at ANU’s Drill Hall Gallery, looks at the allure of ‘unreal’ images.
When iconic conceptual artist Sol LeWitt visited Australia in 1977 and 1998, he found an affinity with Indigenous art. Now, for the first time in 45 years, LeWitt’s work will return to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, alongside new musical collaborations and First Nations art—all for the next Kaldor Public Art Project.
“For me, it’s about wonder and not knowing, and the undoing of trying to solve something,” says Susan Jacobs. The Sydney-born, London-based artist is having her largest show to date at Buxton Contemporary, where romance may be found in the clinical—and detritus becomes precious.
The creation of art is not dissimilar from the creation of worlds: from fantastical responses to personal and collective utopian imaginings, ideas of alternative worlds are being expressed across three innovative exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, State Library of Victoria, and 16Albermarle and Delmar Gallery.
Known for painting startlingly minute moments from cinema, Nicola Smith’s newest works at Sarah Cottier Gallery draw upon a reference closer to home: childrearing and domestic life.
With her parents migrating to Australia in 1984, Adelaide-born artist Allison Chhorn uses film to explore migration, displacement and intergenerational trauma—all with highly empathic affect, as showing at ACE Open.
“It’s really about looking at images and putting them together, and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan in our podcast series Artists Abroad, talking with artists who’ve moved to London and what the move has meant for their practice—while also chatting about the art itself.
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.
In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost.
Existing in the space between ritual, performance and ceremony, the body-centred work of Latai Taumoepeau rewrites the stories that shape our perception of Oceania—while using ancient traditions to tackle our most urgent modern concerns. Taumoepeau is now participating in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania at Artspace.
Wanda Gillespie’s handcrafted sculptures embody ideas of the sacred.
Her latest exhibition, Of Counting and Devotion, is now showing at Craft Victoria’s Vitrine Gallery.
The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
