In Search of Mohamed at This Is No Fantasy includes multichannel video and photography works that explore the tensions between “the reverent and the profane”.
Mexican artist Tania Candiani is bringing her large-scale installations to Sydney, in a startlingly poetic work reflecting the flows of waterways, sound, language, migration and eco systems.
Since the 70s, Helen Fuller has worked across painting, installation and sculpture. Her latest show at Samstag Museum of Art explores her hand-built forms, and she speaks about this exhibition as well as childhood exploring, archaeological digs and the diverse textures found in nature.
“And being on Country has given me permission to speak loudly,” says artist Leanne Tobin, “to tell the truth about what has happened to the Dharug, to my family, and also to make work about the shared need to care for Country.” We visited the artist in her studio ahead of her current showing at Biennale of Sydney.
The acclaimed UK duo Ackroyd & Harvey are two of the most innovative artists working in environmental art today—and for the current Biennale of Sydney, they’ve bought their grass works to our shores, advocating for a sustainable future.
For three decades Marco Fusinato has worked across his noise guitar performances, installations, and appropriated musical scores. Interrogating moments of extremity, whether political or musical, Fusinato is now representing Australia in the 2022 Venice Biennale — which you can stream live. Here, he talks about punk, noise and music, and moments of radicalism.
The pandemic has been a wake-up call. Now, more than ever, the arts are a part of our daily lives. They are not something only “the elite” enjoy; they are an expression of the human condition.
From Melbourne to Brisbane to Newcastle to Sydney to Mildura, here’s six new galleries with six new and compelling exhibitions.
The winners of the 2022 Victorian Craft Awards have been announced, with Blanche Tilden winning ‘The Lynne Kosky Award for Contemporary Jewellery’, alongside another five award categories recognising craft in its many forms—and there’s a stunning finalist exhibition on display at Craft Victoria.
Curator Patrice Sharkey has been programming exhibitions about the internet for years, and her latest, Metaverse at ACE Open, invites viewers to stoke some scepticism about the corporations that control our online world.
Dual theories of life’s beginnings inform Marikit Santiago’s work, showing at the newly reopened 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
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.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Bringing together 70 artists from 30 countries, the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art fosters connections across cultures and borders, and translates cultural knowledge for the present day.
