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Jeweller Blanche Tilden has spent 25 years adorning people with unusual materials—from glass and metal to computer parts and bicycle chains.
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Jeweller Blanche Tilden has spent 25 years adorning people with unusual materials—from glass and metal to computer parts and bicycle chains.
Peter Wegner has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture in its centenary year with his Portrait of Guy Warren at 100.
Australian artists with an intellectual disability have for decades been creating important, rigorous and playful art. Historically these artists have been pushed to the periphery—but not any longer.
Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja, a renowned artist from the Western Kimberly region of Western Australia, was honoured with a prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Richard Bell’s art is a call for social justice that’s equally serious, poetic and darkly humorous. Here, the renowned Indigenous artist tells us the personal and compelling stories behind five of his artworks.
For over four decades William Yang has photographed moments of love and death, crisis and identity.
RISING, a new festival, launches polyphonic voices across the Melbourne CBD
From the painted miniatures of old to the photo on an iPhone lock screen, the bond between love and portraiture is a tale as old as time.
In From Australia: An Accumulation both artists and the general public use printmaking to respond to German curator René Block’s 1988 time capsule of Australian art. The exhibition, which starts at Latrobe Regional Gallery, will evolve as it tours during the next two years.
As a young man, George Gittoes followed the advice of Mother Teresa and dedicated himself to making inclusive art. Now 72, On Being There, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, records his life’s work, in and out of warzones.
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.
Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.
A Delicate Terrain, a new exhibition of works drawn from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, looks at our relationship with the environment through the lens of contemporary art.
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.
