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Oslo Davis: Beware the art enabler
Illustrator Oslo Davis questions if you should always listen to that little voice inside your head.
Oslo Davis
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Helga Groves’s exquisite earthly abstractions
Drawn to extreme locations where geological change is rendered upon the landscape in violent and unpredictable ways, Helga Groves translates earthly textures into an abstract visual language, with new work at Milani Gallery.
Briony Downes
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Dennis Golding’s superhero cape
Going from a young Batman to mentoring children in cape-making workshops, Dennis Golding’s art is about Indigenous empowerment, and is now showing at Carriageworks, Cement Fondu and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Andrew Stephens
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The technicolour joy of Gwenneth Blitner
The vividly colourful flower and landscape paintings of Gwenneth Blitner, showing for Tarnanthi 2021, not only convey connection to Country, but the joy of painting itself.
Timmah Ball
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Assembling difference with Lorraine Connelly-Northey and Rosalie Gascoigne
Lorraine Connelly-Northey’s tough barbed wire sculpture meets the rhythmic assemblage of Rosalie Gascoigne.
Victoria Perin
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Louise Tuckwell and her newest work Cuboids
Having made extraordinary obelisk-shaped forms for her last exhibition, Louise Tuckwell—known for her hard-edge paintings—found herself exploring an exciting space: paintings you can walk around.
Andrew Stephens
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Alex Martinis Roe is Coming Home
Alex Martinis Roe’s latest exhibition, Coming Home, is devoted to the history of Jewish Adelaide Feminist Lesbians (JAFL), and its own unique, complex, queer genealogy.
Victoria Perin
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Sarah Goffman and the Applied Arts
In keeping with Sarah Goffman’s long-time practice, Applied Arts is a contemplation of civilisation’s relentless production of waste.
Barnaby Smith
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In the fibre of her being
“Textiles are a form of language, a dialect used to communicate,” says Sydney-based curator Sarah Rose.
Briony Downes
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The story behind the Karrabing Film Collective
Based in the Northern Territory but internationally renowned, the Karrabing Film Collective look at equality issues such as poverty, incarceration and mining on Country, while also weaving traditional stories connected with Country. Now, Karrabing’s films are showing at Samstag Museum of Art.
Andrew Stephens
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Observing Patterns
Samuel Tupou’s practice meditates on repetition and kinship.
Diego Ramirez
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Doug Aitken on synthetic realities and if art can change minds
“I think we’re going to see a revolution in what creativity and culture can be,” says American multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken ahead of his first Australian survey show, New Era.
Steve Dow
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