While galleries and museums raced to go digital during our national lockdowns, many artists embraced a slower form of connection: the mail.
Rich with symbolism and colour, the prints and paintings of Ryan Presley give a sharp and deeply compassionate history of Indigenous experiences with governance and power in Australia. He tells us the potent stories behind five of his artworks.
Both Artspace, in the Gunnery building in Woolloomooloo, and the 19th and 20th-century AGNSW buildings will be undergoing renovation in 2021.
After 46 years, the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) will cease operating in its current form on 16 December, after which its Darlinghurst gallery and headquarters will be closed to the public.
Artistic responses to bushfire carry a certain burden of responsibility.
Brenda May is about to shut the doors on her MAY SPACE gallery in Sydney, but she is most definitely not closing up shop.
Meredith Turnbull has been creating digital works that look at the idea of ‘excess’.
Miles Hall’s recent paintings evoke romance through their depth of surface and fairy tale inspirations.
Overlapping Magisteria is the name of the 2020 Macfarlane Commissions on show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
“A big part of art is sharing it with others. Painting is only art while someone is looking at it; that is already a collaboration between the artist and the audience.”
Weapons for the Soldier brings together 41 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on warfare and the inherent drive to protect Country, family and culture.
Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.
Shirley Purdie’s newest paintings at Olsen Gallery are ancestral stories of Country and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming), but also sites and moments that resonate with Purdie, from her birthplace of Mabel Downs Station to her family history.
“It starts with Elizabethan and Tudor period portraits and goes right through to contemporary times.” The National Portrait Gallery in London has loaned 80 works to our National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, capturing portraiture through the ages.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
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