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.
How have Australia’s commercial galleries been faring through the last two years, and how are they feeling about the future? Mostly, it’s looking quite optimistic.
“It transcends time and cultures,” says Geelong Gallery senior curator Lisa Sullivan of the well-known, perhaps even iconic, Frederick McCubbin painting A bush burial, 1890.
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.
Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.
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.
Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.
Now showing at HOTA, Writers Revealed is an ambitious exhibition covering six centuries, presenting manuscripts, letters, illustrations and rare editions from many of the most influential authors in English literature.
