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.
Time has revealed itself in new ways during the pandemic. In Time Feeling Slippy, artist David Booth, also known as Ghostpatrol, uses bold colour-block paintings to explore this strange phenomenon.
“Art is this amazing subject,” says Robert Owen. “It comes from different people and it contributes to cultural identity in a way that can question ourselves…”
For over 60 years John Wolseley has been visiting, capturing and sharing his experience of landscapes. But what does it mean to create and innovate over six decades? Wolseley’s work is currently showing in Regenesis – Slow Water – Deep Earth at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
A sense of the uncanny echoes through many of the works in Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020.
Khadim Ali traces the lines that keep us apart in Invisible Border, his largest solo show to date, at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
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.
Curators Martyn Jolly and Tony Oates’ Light Source, brings together ten artists whose work incorporates combinations of light projection and performance at Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra.
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
Language folds into form in the poetic yet monumental light sculptures of Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, whose solo exhibition … in light of the visible is at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
An exhibition 50 years in the making, Auto-Photo: A life in Portraits currently on display at RMIT Gallery, celebrates the life of Alan Adler, one of the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technicians in the world.
Alchemist and artist, Natasha Walsh’s new solo show, The Window, embarks on a “new beginning” at N.Smith Gallery in Sydney.
