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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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Illustrator Oslo Davis questions if you should always listen to that little voice inside your head.
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.
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.
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.
Lorraine Connelly-Northey’s tough barbed wire sculpture meets the rhythmic assemblage of Rosalie Gascoigne.
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.
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.
In keeping with Sarah Goffman’s long-time practice, Applied Arts is a contemplation of civilisation’s relentless production of waste.
“Textiles are a form of language, a dialect used to communicate,” says Sydney-based curator Sarah Rose.
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.
Samuel Tupou’s practice meditates on repetition and kinship.
“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.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
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.
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.
“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.
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