The Fresh Prints of Badu
For years I have been inspired by the stories and images of the Torres Strait islands above Cape York.
For years I have been inspired by the stories and images of the Torres Strait islands above Cape York.
One afternoon, during an event at the Sydney College of the Arts, Alex Gawronski looked up from an elaborate cheese platter and turned to Justene Williams, his fellow teacher. “If I ever gave up art,” he said, intoxicated by the pungent stink, “I would make cheese in a cave.”
Photo and video artist Lisa Reihana describes herself as “native two-times over”…
The Australian Centre for the Contemporary Art is mounting the first Australasian survey of von Brandenburg’s work in a gallery-wide exhibition.
Ceramic artist Stephen Bird is known for work with a wicked sense of humour.
Hatched, now in its 25th year, is the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art’s annual survey of recent visual arts graduates.
Frontiers are pervasive and can take many different forms on many different levels.
Women in Power was both a celebration of achievement and an invitation to do better.
This theme of “waiting” is hard to pin down. It can be a short spell or a lifetime’s endurance.
Photography is an important medium for Aboriginal people.
There’s a wall in Jan Senberg’s studio that’s covered in hundreds of images, all neatly arrayed in a salon-style grid…
You have to wonder: How did we get here? How did we end up with art as a ‘critical practice’ that is neither really that critical nor particularly good art?
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.
In celebration of Artbank’s 45-year anniversary, two major exhibitions and a publication are on display. View, in pictures, Artbank’s Sydney exhibition, Art Text/Text Art.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
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.
