Four major Sydney venues are currently exhibiting some of the most poignant and compelling works in Australia today. Five exhibiting artists—Amanda Williams, Diena Georgetti, Elizabeth Day, Heather B. Swann and Lynda Draper—tell us about the work they’re showing.
“There’s something very special about looking into where you come from and what surrounds you,” says Sydney artist Bruce Slorach. View, in pictures, Slorach’s latest art centred on the beauty of Australian flora and fauna, as showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Julia Gutman’s Archibald-winning portrait of the singer Montaigne and Zaachariaha Fielding’s winning entry, Inma, in the Wynne Prize have more in common than their youth – although it is worth noting they both represent a new generation of artists, a changing of the guard at the Art Gallery of NSW’s annual series of art prizes.
Ceramicist James Lemon creates often irreverent, yet sublimely aesthetic, ceramic works. Ahead of his solo at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, and his showing in ‘Melbourne Now’, we visited his light-filled studio, talking about his process, insects and religion, faith and humour.
Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are an ideal combination. Two of this country’s leading artists, they’ve now come together for an exhibition, currently on display at the Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie. In a very generous conversation, they talk about the process of creating a show together, motherhood, and balancing politics and aesthetics.
Julia Gutman has won the 2023 Archibald Prize for her portrait of singer Montaigne—making Gutman one of the youngest winners in the award’s history, and the 11th woman to win. The Wynne and Sulman winners have also been revealed.
With recent cultural reckonings, it’s clear audiences want to see strong women on screen. That is exactly what ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess is delivering, celebrating the defiant disruptors and headstrong heroines of film.
After visiting archaeological museums in Syracuse, Adrienne Doig began creating doll-like, textile figures of herself reimagined as a goddess—which are now showing at Martin Browne Contemporary.
Hobart-based photographic artist Valerie Sparks creates visually immersive installations inspired by 19th century French scenic wallpaper and the work of female botanical artists, which are now showing at Bett Gallery.
Irish language and contemporary gaming aren’t seemingly compatible subjects—but they find a meeting point in Clare Milledge’s symbolic paintings at STATION Gallery Sydney.
Ahead of the announcement of the 2023 Archibald winner next week, artist Andrea Huelin has won this year’s Packing Room Prize for her portrait of comedian Cal Wilson—and the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes finalists have been revealed.
Five First Nations artists, ranging the Gurreng Gurreng, Gunggarri, Iningai, Kamilaroi, and Kombumerri lands, honour the past, celebrate the present, and secure the future in East Coast Matters, showing at Kate Owen Gallery.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
Rigg Design Prize has announced its winner for 2025, in a celebration of early and established designers, the innovative works are on display at The Ian Potter Centre.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
