Looking Good in Two Worlds
Hairstyling, selfies and making a magazine: how a remote arts organisation keeps young people connected to Country.
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Hairstyling, selfies and making a magazine: how a remote arts organisation keeps young people connected to Country.
In 2019 the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects as part of their Living Treasures series. The exhibition is still touring the nation and has recently arrived at Design Tasmania.
After three decades of playing with colour, Jurek Wybraniec has pared his materials back to ink on paper for a fresh, diaristic exploration of the monochrome.
What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
Dale Harding collaborates for the first time with his mother Kate in Through a Lens of Visitation at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Together they explore their relationship to Country and ponder issues of access.
Centuries-old Persian arts and crafts meet Florence Broadhurst’s swinging sixties wallpapers as Iranzamin, at the Powerhouse (MAAS), tells stories of empire and immigration.
When British designer Mary Quant led a 1960s fashion revolution, she would forever change how women dressed.
Georgia Banks has eligible contestants lining up…for a chance to win exclusive control over the artist’s funeral and remains.
Not everyone can spot beauty in a recipe, but Nadia Hernández has the heart of a poet.
From cartoon characters to fetishistic obsessions and aqua blue swimming pools, Rob McLeish channels online imagery into a suite of intense drawings in his solo show Distortions at Neon Parc – Brunswick.
From individuals to collectives, female philanthropy is a major driving force in the Australian arts. But who are these women? And why don’t we know more about them?
The 2021 Australia Council Awards honoured Vivienne Binns OAM for her outstanding commitment to Visual Arts, Cat Jones for her contribution to Emerging and Experimental Arts, and Marianne Wobcke received the Australia Council Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
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.
Vipoo Srivilasa is a Melbourne-based, Thai-born Australian artist whose ceramic artworks emanate a sense of positivity, playfulness and joy. In an interview with fellow ceramicist Sassy Park, he discusses his early introduction to the medium, curating the Australian-Asian ceramic exhibition Generation Clay, and his upcoming project re/JOY.
In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.
Helen Mueller has been printmaking for 25 years, but moving to Hobart four years ago shifted her focus to the local natural environment. Now her delicate prints, made with materials foraged from the forest floor, are showing at Handmark Gallery.
