Barnaby Smith takes an in-depth look at River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin, an exhibition focused on the continued devastation of the Murray-Darling Basin.
John Scurry’s small paintings are formless and atmospheric, evoking only a suggestion of landscape or the misty hues of dawn.
Using machinery to gradually erode a half-tonne block of soil, Andrew explores the relationship between Country and cultures.
Longstanding artistic explorations of the tension between formalism and intuition reunite good friends Eugene Carchesio and Diena Georgetti in their first two-person exhibition.
Sydney’s exuberant history of creativity and dissent comes to life in Paper Tigers, an exhibition of 200 screen printed posters from the 1970s.
Embracing the current push led by museums, galleries and public collections to highlight the work of women artists, Lisa Fehily has opened Finkelstein Gallery, an all-female commercial art space in Melbourne.
White Rabbit Gallery has pulled off a neat trick. As the Sydney-based institution celebrates its 10th anniversary, it manages to feel both venerable and fresh.
Milan Milojevic threads wild landscapes with the richness of altered fauna, flora and mythological creatures. His newest exhibition converges on one visual motif: the waterfall.
Best known for the monumental Great Hall tapestries at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV International), the legacy of painter Roger Kemp is being re-assessed in three concurrent exhibitions.
For David Hurlston curating is both a conceptual and physical process: he’s concerned with how viewers move through gallery spaces and how they read artworks. “It’s just about making a really tangible and interesting and educative experience, and I think that happens in the real world, in the real space,” he says.
“After being butchered, a body can never have its wholeness back,” recites Mombaça from “The Enciphered Letters to Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro”, a tribute to a young Brazilian black trans artist whose work Mombaça finds powerful.
Visual artists Angela Tiatia and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are among the nine Sidney Myer Creative Fellows for 2019. Nominated artists must meet the criteria of “outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage.”
Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?
In an industry built on gratitude, is a labour union the missing foundation? Madeleine Thornton-Smith delves into the history and possible future of artists’ unions.
Melding motifs from Chinese culture with Biblical imagery and her own experiences, Louise Zhang’s alluring paintings reach far beyond the gallery.
Australian artists with an intellectual disability have for decades been creating important, rigorous and playful art. Historically these artists have been pushed to the periphery—but not any longer.
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