Close to home: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016
Presenting the work of six artists, Close to home is the second Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial.
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Presenting the work of six artists, Close to home is the second Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial.
These locks are open confessions, vows taken to withstand time, intended to be part of the fabric of a place.
Harold Thomas, the artist who designed the Australian Aboriginal flag in 1971, has been declared the overall winner of the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
A low-grade anxiety simmered under the surface in The Fraud Complex, perhaps a pre-emptive emotion, as Next Wave was dealt a blow with the loss of its Australia Council funding.
The Uncanny Valley is an alchemical and vibrant exhibition pondering the complexities of existence.
The title of Julia Robinson’s latest body of work, The Song of Master John Goodfellow, refers to French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelais’s notorious satirical novels The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.
The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF) and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) will amalgamate.
Ari Athans began her professional life as a working geologist and these concerns permeate her paintings.
Rather than focusing on the object of the photograph, Jafri takes on the subjectivity of a topic that, historically, has been deemed rather concrete: the days of national independence from colonial powers around the world.
Contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente transforms Carriageworks into an opulent village.
Western Australian artist Miriam Stannage has spent a lifetime interrogating the world through her camera.
For the first major survey of contemporary Australian painting in a decade, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art took an unexpected curatorial cue.
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.
Grace Wood’s new exhibition for Heide Museum of Modern Art intertwines personal, familial, and artistic archives. Consisting of textile and digital collage, Wood traces lines of inheritance and influence to position the garden as a site of both personal and artistic cultivation.
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.
Language folds into form in the poetic yet monumental light sculptures of Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, whose solo exhibition … in light of the visible is at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
