The artist at work
Writer Louise Martin-Chew visited Alair Pambegan at Aurukun in north Queensland, learning first-hand about the artist’s process and connection to Country.
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Writer Louise Martin-Chew visited Alair Pambegan at Aurukun in north Queensland, learning first-hand about the artist’s process and connection to Country.
In this interview, while preparing for her retrospective show Finders Keepers at Mundaring Arts Centre, the West Australian artist Nalda Searles talks about her four-decade long textiles-based practice, adapting to the changes life throws in your way, channelling her dark humour, and committing to creativity.
In our latest Smartphone Snaps photo essay, James Powditch turns his pandemic-fuelled anger into art, and walks us through his daily lockdown routine.
The winners of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) have been announced with Western Australian artist Timo Hogan taking out the $50,000 Telstra Art Award with Lake Baker, 2020.
In our ongoing Smartphone Snaps series, artists invite us into their locked-down lives. Here, Kuba Dorabialski takes us on a trip to wildly different destinations, from Bulgaria and Uzbekistan to his own backyard.
In Future U, more than a dozen artists, including Karen Casey, Patricia Piccinini, Stelarc and Bettina von Arnim, playfully, poetically—and sometimes disturbingly—explore how technology might affect our identity as humans, and indeed what constitutes being human.
Joel B. Pratley has won the 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) for his evocative photograph Drought story, capturing a lone farmer walking through the reddened haze of a dust storm, in drought-stricken Australia.
From Cairns to Darwin to Gold Coast to Melbourne to South Australia, throughout August there are multiple art fairs and festivals throughout the country, as well as online. Here’s our round-up of what to see.
Mikala Dwyer connects a range influences like the mystical, occultism, constructivism, Dada, Bauhaus, memory and sexuality. With a new exhibition on avian life at Roslyn Oxley9, Dwyer talks about reading tarots, her process of ‘not-knowing’, and explains just how personal her art is.
Drawing upon the debated life of 18th-century French spy Chevalière d’Éon, Madison Bycroft’s new video at Samstag Museum looks at the unknowability of personhood.
Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.
A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction.
The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.
The quietly evocative work of James Tylor reimagines imperial legacies and illuminates a hidden past. Turrangka… In The Shadows, Tylor’s touring retrospective exhibition, is now showing at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Congratulations to Aisha Sherman-Noth, who has won the 2025 Glover Prize for Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist wins $80,000 for the painting, which depicts weeping birch and poplar trees along the Brooker Highway into Hobart.
