In Part II of Mike Parr’s solo exhibition Half Way House, at Anna Schwartz Gallery, the artist’s earlier performances haunt the space creating disorientating echoes.
For over 35 years Badtjala artist Fiona Foley has created powerful art on the atrocities of colonialism. Now, the artist has a major survey at QUT Art Museum.
In the group show PIVOT II at Onespace Gallery, artists make books that jump out of their bindings and on to the walls.
Timed to coincide with NAIDOC week (4-11 July), the exhibition WARWAR at Newcastle Art Gallery celebrates the rich history and diverse contemporary art of the Torres Strait Islands.
With multiple Australian cities now in lockdown, there’s plenty of ways to engage with and support artists—from experimental video streaming, virtual galleries, old master documentaries and the best of arts podcasts, this is our curated shortlist.
Sara Maher is drawn to isolated terrains, immersing herself in the reflective solitude of Tasmanian landscapes. At Bett Gallery, Maher reflects on her deeply affective connection to land.
In its touring program Freighting Ideas, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is sending its artworks on an ambassadorial tour throughout Western Australia to near and distant regional galleries.
Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?
Initiated by the JamFactory and touring Australia, CONCRETE brings together 21 projects by artists, architects and designers to explore the conceptual, expressive and material qualities of concrete.
From glass eel traps to possum skin cloaks, Maree Clarke uses art to tell stories as well as reclaim and extend cultural practices. Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories is the first major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria by a living artist with ancestral ties to the land on which the gallery stands.
Camille Henrot identifies systems of understanding the world, and turns them inside out.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
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.
Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.
