The Material Action of Nicholas Mangan
From the myth of gold-hunting termites to capturing minute rock particles, Nicholas Mangan’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art weaves narrative, materiality, and time.
From the myth of gold-hunting termites to capturing minute rock particles, Nicholas Mangan’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art weaves narrative, materiality, and time.
Working between Indonesia and Australia, Jumaadi’s art draws on Javanese folk culture to excavate themes of colonialism, suffering, death and birth. His work is featured in an exhibition now showing at Bundanon Art Museum.
In her latest collection of works, now showing at Tactile Arts, Hunnah James incorporates shedded discards from local paperbarks trees into her watercolour paintings of native flora and fauna.
A new show at Craft Victoria asks six creatives—artists, makers, designers—to respond to aluminium as a material. All the aluminium used is recycled, highlighting the space’s new Conscious Craft initiative.
The beachside charm of the Gold Coast is getting the Renaissance treatment with the region’s major gallery, Home of the Arts (HOTA), exhibiting not “old master” paintings per se, but a series of multifaceted, immersive projections of works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli and Caravaggio, among many others.
Trevor Yeung’s art draws on moments of quiet, dawning intimacy between people—interactions which are immensely felt yet so difficult to express. The Hong-Kong based artist is in this year’s Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and Artspace.
With a practice stretching over 50 years, celebrated artist Jill Orr is known for working with her body and centering responsibility towards our environment and place. In her latest exhibition at Linden New Art, Orr revisits an earlier series from 2012—and what it can tell us today.
In their first joint exhibition together, the couple Dana Harris and Peter Atkins share their separate three-year-long projects made during the Melbourne lockdowns, delivering a shared interest in geometry and colour in SUPERsystems at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
The brand new 10km Mosman Art Trail features landmarks that have inspired generations of artists, including Arthur Streeton, Margaret Preston, Susan Rothwell and Jasper Knight. With accompanying reproductions of artworks at various sites on the walk, it’s a chance to reflect how artists interpret the landscape.
Fabrication, a co-curatorial project now showing at DRAW Space, brings together 10 contemporary artists working in the intersections of drawing and digital fabrication.
Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale for his monumental work, kith and kin. It marks the first time Australia has won the award in the event’s 130-year history.
Endlessly inventive, the work of Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Scotty So spans photography, painting, video work, and drag performance. With a dual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, So talks about pageantry, begonias and queens.
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.
Curators Martyn Jolly and Tony Oates’ Light Source, brings together ten artists whose work incorporates combinations of light projection and performance at Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra.
Ahead of her solo exhibition at Niagara Galleries, Vongpoothorn contemplates the ideas sprouted during her residency, and how they have transformed once returned to her Canberra studio.
This year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary marks the launch of Photo Sydney, a presentation that brings together the country’s most acclaimed photographers and gives the medium —and its relevance to our cultural moment—the attention it deserves.
