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.
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.
In an Australian first, the Art Gallery of Western Australia presents Moving Landscape—an exhibition by internationally acclaimed US artist Sam Contis, curated alongside Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson.
The cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi’s presentation at Venice Biennale signals a long-simmering breakdown of trust between artists and institutions—one that risks threatening the breadth and depth of artistic expression in Australia for generations to come. Dee Jefferson reports.
