Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are an ideal combination. Two of this country’s leading artists, they’ve now come together for an exhibition, currently on display at the Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie. In a very generous conversation, they talk about the process of creating a show together, motherhood, and balancing politics and aesthetics.
Julia Gutman has won the 2023 Archibald Prize for her portrait of singer Montaigne—making Gutman one of the youngest winners in the award’s history, and the 11th woman to win. The Wynne and Sulman winners have also been revealed.
With recent cultural reckonings, it’s clear audiences want to see strong women on screen. That is exactly what ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess is delivering, celebrating the defiant disruptors and headstrong heroines of film.
After visiting archaeological museums in Syracuse, Adrienne Doig began creating doll-like, textile figures of herself reimagined as a goddess—which are now showing at Martin Browne Contemporary.
Hobart-based photographic artist Valerie Sparks creates visually immersive installations inspired by 19th century French scenic wallpaper and the work of female botanical artists, which are now showing at Bett Gallery.
Irish language and contemporary gaming aren’t seemingly compatible subjects—but they find a meeting point in Clare Milledge’s symbolic paintings at STATION Gallery Sydney.
Ahead of the announcement of the 2023 Archibald winner next week, artist Andrea Huelin has won this year’s Packing Room Prize for her portrait of comedian Cal Wilson—and the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes finalists have been revealed.
Five First Nations artists, ranging the Gurreng Gurreng, Gunggarri, Iningai, Kamilaroi, and Kombumerri lands, honour the past, celebrate the present, and secure the future in East Coast Matters, showing at Kate Owen Gallery.
A new documentary from Larissa Behrendt, You Can Go Now, highlights the life, work and activism of Richard Bell: a self-described “activist masquerading as an artist”.
These seven new (and re-opened) galleries represent compelling beginnings in Australian arts. Across city and regional areas, including Melbourne, Sydney, Bega, Maryborough and Barossa Valley, we’ve curated these recent and upcoming gallery openings to explore.
During his lifetime, Andy Warhol took more than 40,000 Polaroids. These are now showing across Australia, alongside images of Warhol himself, in all their glamour, intimacy, desire and loneliness.
For six months, Catherine Bell and Cathy Staughton undertook a residency with ‘Spot’, a famous robot used everywhere from the policing to construction. Through Dog Robot Space Star at Gertrude Glasshouse, the pair consider the ethical implications of Spot, and what it means to care for robot companions, and each other.
A major exhibition charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time. In collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre,Yolŋu Power: the art of Yirrkala is now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Elysha Rei’s exhibition Shirozato to Shinju (White Sugar and Pearls) at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville QLD, explores the interconnected histories of the Japanese diaspora in Australia.
Described as “a space for reflection, remembrance, and the sharing of truth”, Kattidj Nagãr, now showing at John Curtin Gallery, is dedicated to the Aboriginal people who once resided at the Carrolup Settlement in Western Australia.
Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey has been creating artwork for more than three decades. Describing his style as pictograms of a scenario, with images and symbols connecting a sprawling narrative, Hookey’s work, which is now showing at Plimsoll Gallery, is imbued with elements of activism, pop culture and lived experience.
