In our latest Smartphone Snaps feature, painter Eleanor Louise Butt offers an intimate glimpse of her home and studio in the Dandenong Ranges during Victoria’s fifth lockdown.
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.
A lavish exhibition adorning Bunjil Place Gallery, in a major partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, presents over 150 historical and contemporary works—spanning painting, fashion, installation, and so much more—that explore a long history of flowers in art.
Cats & Dogs, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, explores the ways that the relationships we share with our pets are a source of strangeness and intimacy. But for Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, it’s also an exercise in the power of seeing and being seen.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
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.
You’re Welcome?, a group exhibition at Verge Gallery, complicates this country’s well-worn narratives of inclusion and exclusion, while playfully exposing the rules that shape what it means to belong.
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.
