
Observing Patterns
Samuel Tupou’s practice meditates on repetition and kinship.
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.
The new regional gallery Ngununggula—based in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales—is opening with a show by Tamara Dean, considering the existentialism of the pandemic and recent bushfires. Within anxiety and uncertainty, Dean finds depth and lightheartedness.
As Sydney galleries reopen this week, with Canberra and Melbourne not far behind, Australia’s most prominent museum leaders discuss the impacts and opportunities of the pandemic, and how they’re adapting to our new ‘Covid normal’.
After winning the 2021 Sulman Prize and the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Georgia Spain’s vividly gestural paintings are highly lauded. The artist, who only had her first solo show three years ago, talks about why she’s compelled to capture human interaction, how she defines success, and painting pleasure and conflict.
Through her painting and ceramics, Neridah Stockley balances the details of place with a bold distillation of colour and form.
Sovereign sisters: domestic work sheds light on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s forced domestic service.
This year’s Floating Land is the eleventh iteration of the biennial outdoor sculpture festival based in Noosa Heads.
At first glance, Susanne Kerr’s large gouache paintings of delicate floral arrangements convey lightness and whimsy—but something else is going on under the surface.
Despite being in ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, Hannah Gartside is still creating, giving attention to the tactility, movement and histories of textiles.
Troy-Anthony Baylis uses glomesh and pop music to weave together queerness and Indigeneity.