While much of Salote Tawale’s work is humorous on the surface, the artist is mining the tensions surrounding representation, colonialism, and her own cultural and personal histories—and is doing so with two solos at PICA and MAMA.
After years working overseas as a curator and gallery director, Suzanne Cotter will return home to Australia as the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney.
Radical for 1940s Australia, the cover designs of arts magazine A Comment are compelling examples of sparse modernism, and are now showing at the National Gallery of Australia for Know My Name. But who is the woman behind them?
Arthur Boyd’s landscapes not only ruminate on the Australian bush but provide a rich canvas for human emotion to dwell.
Rosella Namok’s Recent Paintings are about colour, alongside telling stories of Country and family from the Ungkum artist’s home in Far North Queensland.
Dean Cross examines his past, present and future ambitions through the lens of a Greek myth in his solo show Icarus, my Son at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. He spoke to Briony Downs about leaving his regional home for the big city and the responsibility of being a culture-maker.
In Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, 22 artists make the most of the constraints and possibilities of wearability and push the limits of body adornment. An Australian Design Centre touring show, Made/Worn opens at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery on 17 July.
Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce talks about the power of visual narratives, how her work reveals hidden truths, and her latest show Missile Park now on at the Institute of Modern Art.
The Greek myth of Daphne—a nymph who turned into a tree after the Greek god Apollo chased her—echoes our current conversations on consent and climate change. And it’s the basis of ACCA’s new show.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place.
