“I decided that art essentially is a communication, so my basis of my work is conceptual,” says artist Bonita Ely, a pioneer in environmental art in Australia, in this episode of The Long Run, a podcast talking with artists who have 60-year practices.
After being postponed for almost two years, Frances Barrett’s Meatus is now opening at ACCA. Our 2020 interview is essential reading ahead of the exhibition and performances.
Disinformation, algorithms, big data, care work, climate change, cultural knowledge: they can all be invisible.
In a world defined by speed and acceleration Radical Slowness at The Lock-Up explores slowness through art and thought.
Central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is a focus on collectives coming together. We look at the stories and art behind three Indigenous collectives in rīvus: Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre and Casino Wake Up Time from Australia, and New Zealand’s Mata Aho Collective.
The practice and philosophy of journaling is at the heart of Alexander Okenyo’s Amor Fati at Bett Gallery: the show can be read as a series of time capsules from Okenyo’s life as he negotiates the art world, family, the pandemic, and his community in the Derwent Valley of Tasmania.
Forging a photographic practice throughout the 1970s feminism movement, Ponch Hawkes is now turning to a feminist issue of the moment: the ageing female body. With works currently showing in the National Gallery of Victoria’s QUEER exhibition, Hawkes will soon unveil her solo at Geelong Gallery.
Across dance, performance and video, Amrita Hepi’s latest art—showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art—isn’t only about protest, but what happens after the revolution.
With memorabilia coming to Bendigo Art Gallery direct from Graceland, how do we account for the enduring presence of Elvis, asks critic Rex Butler? “More popular than Jesus” is how John Lennon referred to The Beatles in 1966, a line we could lend to The King himself.
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.
“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.
Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra’s three-metre tall larrakitj (memorial poles) are perfect for the soaring interiors of Michael Reid’s new Chippendale gallery, where fifteen of the impressively patterned larrakitj showcase Wunuŋmurra’s spiralling floral motifs and her rigorous geometry.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is showing now at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale for his monumental work, kith and kin. It marks the first time Australia has won the award in the event’s 130-year history.
Endlessly inventive, the work of Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Scotty So spans photography, painting, video work, and drag performance. With a dual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, So talks about pageantry, begonias and queens.
Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce has earned critical acclaim for her research in nuclear testing and its ongoing impact on First Nations communities. With a survey at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Scarce speaks to her blown glass forms.
Congratulations to Ellen Dahl, who has won the $30,000 2024 National Photography Prize for her work, Four Days Before Winter, a four-part piece exploring the devastating effects of climate change on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Until 2026, Wanneroo Regional Art Gallery will be showing 53 original artworks by one of the most famous artists of the 20th century: Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol ICONS includes famous works such as Elvis (1963), Campbell’s Soup Cans (1968) and Marilyn (1967).
