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.
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.
Multidisciplinary artist Tara Marynowsky reveals where she finds inspiration, the best time of day for creating and what we can expect to see in her current solo show Cave at Edwina Corlette Gallery.
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
An exhibition at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery pays tribute to Staffordshire-born Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) and his eponymous pottery company, featuring rare, valuable and ornate pieces, as well as “grandma’s good china”.
With an approach to artmaking drawn from the “fieldwork of life”, twin brothers and artistic collaborators Man&Wah, who are now showing at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, use plant migration to explore duality and movement.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
