We are the dew drops
Poetic and poignant, Lindy Lee’s work reflects the enormity and fragility of the cosmos.
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Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza and Warraba Weatherall talk about the process behind This language that is every stone at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, as well as curating identity in the 21st century, and the relationship between art and language.
Melbourne Art Fair is back, presenting solo shows and works from 59 leading galleries and Indigenous-owned art centres from across the country. With so much to look at, we asked curator and writer Kelly Gellatly to tell us her ‘top 10 things to see’ at this year’s fair—for collectors and art lovers alike.
Renowned sculptor Inge King AM once described her artform as “drawing from a thousand different angles.” Using this idea, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery is bringing together the work of 13 female-identifying artists to explore the impact of modernism on contemporary sculpture.
Vivid and exuberant, Kaylene Whiskey’s paintings are like nothing else. In her distinct style, Whiskey brings together celebrities and consumer culture with her Aboriginal heritage—and she has a major new video commission showing for this year’s Melbourne Art Fair.
Intimate, sexualised, playful and primordial: for three decades Borland has used photography as her medium, from photographing Queen Elizabeth to creating her own visual language. Showing at Melbourne Art Fair, Borland tells us where she’s at with life and art.
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art has earned its rightful place in Australia’s cultural calendar for the ambitious scope of its artistic programming, highlighting the diversity and range of artistic practices across the Asia Pacific region. This 10th triennial, ATP10, features 150 artists and collectives from 30 countries.
When the arts sector relies upon free labour from artists and arts workers, how do we have conversations about real job equity and sustainability? Sophia Cai unpacks this question.
From climate change to geography to cattle farming, Gathering Geographies at Sydney’s Darren Knight Gallery speculates on how the earth, via weather, time and resources, shapes human movement and creativity.
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is known for his iconoclastic figurative sculptures that are bright, bold and larger than life. We visited the artist’s studio to learn more about Nithiyendran’s process, and hear about his inclusion in HOTA’s summer show.
The bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) in Naminapu Maymuru-White’s solo at Sullivan+Strumpf poignantly speak not only of Country, but an astral parallel: the Milky Way.
Creating layers of artificial and natural dyes, Jahnne Pasco-White’s quietly mesmerising canvases speak to an entwined relationship between painting, bodies, materials and the world, with work currently showing at Town Hall Gallery and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.
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.
