Jon Campbell’s practice is characterised by an avid interest in Australian vernacular, local and national iconography, popular cultural, colloquial sayings, graphic design tropes, vivid colours and negative space.
“Not every country town or city thought to build a permanent local gallery, or if they had, many didn’t survive to the present day. To travel around to experience Australia’s wealth of regional galleries is to be presented with the architecture of make-do.”
Showing at PS Art Space, the exhibition is the second instalment of the duo’s three-part Migratory Projects, which, as the name suggests, broadly deals with the aesthetic representation and experience of migration.
Black Magic explores queer Aboriginality from a critical perspective with a playful approach.
Born in Johannesburg in 1972, Breitz, who now lives and works in Berlin, is renowned for her anthropological studies of the cult of celebrity, pop culture, the frame of identity, and representation.
Rather than represent a single viewpoint of the bush, Walker has developed a way to express a fugue-like structure – a set of interwoven elements to invoke being in place.
Tupou is known for his interest in pattern and repetition and vibrant images, originally inspired by his explorations of family, culture and identity in the Pacific.
Phillip England is a former population geneticist with the CSIRO. He took up photography five years ago and most of his images are produced with a large bellows camera.
Along with Stuart Bailey, Wendy Murray has co-curated Fresh Blood: Redback Graphix and its Aftermath at the Casula Powerhouse.
Exquisite, faintly ominous ceramic objects merging plants and insects are at the centre of Angela Valamanesh’s exhibition Everybody’s Everything: Insect/Orchid.
When contemporary artists were sent on a two-week residency to the seaside town of Portsea, they found both splendour and darkness.
During his lifetime Alun Leach-Jones influenced many younger artists and had more than 82 solos shows. In May 2018 Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne will hold a memorial exhibition of the new paintings the artist was working on when he died.
Fiona Abicare works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context.
Adelaide//International finds artists raising the question of who holds the power of narration in a series of four solo exhibitions.
“These aesthetic choices are my history. My culture is pop culture. My background is TV, not religion or spirituality. I can only speak of my own life: I’m trying to make sense of it all, like everyone.” —Darren Sylvester
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