Stephen Dupont’s photos blend documentary and portraiture
In Stephen Dupont’s The White Sheet Series it is the curious bystanders standing adrift that captivate.
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In Stephen Dupont’s The White Sheet Series it is the curious bystanders standing adrift that captivate.
It’s fairly common these days for artists to combine their artistic practice with the role of curator. Brigid Noone explores the tension of this hybrid model in the role of artist and curator for the exhibition Major Tender.
With a keen eye on Darwinian theory, Mona’s David Walsh gathers four scientist-philosophers turned curators to ruminate on art’s beginnings.
This year, Jenny Rodgerson took out the $30,000 prize with her self portrait, Bound by the big red coat.
Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything is a survey show on the leading Japanese artist, spanning 30 years of work.
The exhibition is somewhat of a retrospective of Marani’s 25-year career as an artist.
“You might have heard recently about what’s going down in Sydney’s three major art schools. One has pretty much abandoned traditional art education like painting and sculpture for an offbeat hybrid art/technology thing that costs heaps to produce but has beautiful ’research output’ value.”
In this exhibition, Bloombox, Natasha Bieniek has created 10 miniature paintings of public gardens around Melbourne.
As a painter celebrated for his figurative portraits, Alan Jones recently stepped out from the depths of his warehouse studio and into the open air to tackle the longstanding tradition of landscape.
Despite a successful career spanning 35 years, it’s not easy to see work by the late American artist Mike Kelley in Australia.
For the last 30 years, artists David Jensz and Wendy Teakel have lived together and shared a studio.
Emerging artist Megan Seres and Perth based photographer Johannes Reinhart win the 2016 Moran Art Prizes.
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.
A new exhibition by Melbourne painter Lisa Radford is animated by a deep interest in the way ideas circulate—and the connections between people that unfold over time.
The central life-giving gesture of the breath is at the core of Max Athans’ first institutional solo exhibition. Their series of sculptures, collectively titled Breathform, take air into latex ‘lungs’ which create a whistle in the exhale, a deep breathy sound that echoes eerily through the galleries.
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.
