Known for expressing children’s emotional complexity, Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo displays an artist resurrecting his practice after tragedy, showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
For Melbourne Design Week, creatives Jana Perkovic and Emily Wong consider how women through the ages have modified their fertility, bodies and childbearing. As Lauren Carroll Harris unpacks in an interview with the pair, fertility has never been entirely primal or natural—it’s designed.
One of India’s leading contemporary artists, Mithu Sen’s ‘mind map’ exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary art is focussed on dismantling discipline, power and surface niceties that are engrained in institutions from governments to the art world.
Sonia Leber and David Chesworth recently travelled through the Northern Territory with a team of earth scientists, under the guidance of local Indigenous leaders—and they recorded and filmed what they saw.
Known for her feminist and activist practice, Kate Just has knitted texts revealing her own self-care tools like “get therapy”, “make art” and “learn something new”. With these works currently showing at Linden New Art, Just talks about how important self-care is.
As part of Melbourne Design Week, this year’s four-day Melbourne Design Fair (from 18-21 May) features over 150 designers, centring women and Indigenous creators, and how “the design and making of the things we use in our everyday lives influences the way we think, feel and behave.”
For almost two decades Melbourne artist Alan Constable has created ceramic cameras, defined by their tactility. With both his artwork and portrait currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery, what’s the story behind these beloved creations?
Working widely across print mediums, Barbara Hanrahan’s (1939-1991) art explores beauty, domesticity and the afterlife, balancing the ethereal and the everyday. Now, her work is touring throughout South Australia.
Four major Sydney venues are currently exhibiting some of the most poignant and compelling works in Australia today. Five exhibiting artists—Amanda Williams, Diena Georgetti, Elizabeth Day, Heather B. Swann and Lynda Draper—tell us about the work they’re showing.
“There’s something very special about looking into where you come from and what surrounds you,” says Sydney artist Bruce Slorach. View, in pictures, Slorach’s latest art centred on the beauty of Australian flora and fauna, as showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Julia Gutman’s Archibald-winning portrait of the singer Montaigne and Zaachariaha Fielding’s winning entry, Inma, in the Wynne Prize have more in common than their youth – although it is worth noting they both represent a new generation of artists, a changing of the guard at the Art Gallery of NSW’s annual series of art prizes.
Ceramicist James Lemon creates often irreverent, yet sublimely aesthetic, ceramic works. Ahead of his solo at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, and his showing in ‘Melbourne Now’, we visited his light-filled studio, talking about his process, insects and religion, faith and humour.
A survey exhibition spanning the 30-year practice of Jennifer Mills brings together bodies of works grounded in precision and tenderness at Bunjil Place Gallery.
‘North Terrace: worlds in relief’ showing at Samstag Museum of Art, invites viewers to reflect on the complicated legacies of the cultural institutions that line Adelaide’s North Terrace.
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.
Over 70 fabulous garments of exquisite craftsmanship – some made of silk with gold and silver embroidery and dazzling designs – have been assembled within a context of over 150 paintings, posters, wood block prints, magazines and decorative arts. Although many of the items have never been previously exhibited in Australia, most are now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, with many specifically acquired for this exhibition.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
Elysha Rei’s exhibition Shirozato to Shinju (White Sugar and Pearls) at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville QLD, explores the interconnected histories of the Japanese diaspora in Australia.
