Sydney-based artist Merran Esson has won the $20,000 acquisitive award in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019. Her ceramic work Autumn on the Monaro will become part of the permanent collection at Woollahra Council.
In the third article in an Art Guide Australia series on textiles, Rebecca Shanahan notes the influence of textile techniques on both other mediums and broader culture by delving into the group show Exploded Textiles at Tamworth Regional Gallery.
On winning Katrin Koenning said, “If one of the roles of the artist is to engage critically with the times in which they live, winning the Bowness enables me to continue doing so. I could not be more thankful, or more proud.”
In the second article from an Art Guide Australia series on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan looks at two exhibitions featuring Indigenous artists.
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
Unidentified fossils discovered in the Flinders Ranges form the basis of an exhibition by Berlin-based artist, Mariana Castillo Deball.
Despite being a multidisciplinary artist, Griggs is primarily known for his vivid and chaotic portraits.
This is not an exhibition to digest quickly or casually…
Western Australian artist Jack Caddy’s Made from pillars of spit launches a tragi-comedic critique of what happens when saliva becomes transferable digital information. “How do we navigate this new field where it only takes your third cousin spitting in a tube for someone to identify you?”
The first Australian show from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the Beirut-based, British-Lebanese sound artist and self-described ‘audio investigator’, is a complex, politicised interrogation of the possibilities and mysteries of sonic experience.
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles which turn the spotlight on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan examines the rise of interest in weaving by taking a close look at the work of Broken Hill-based artist Blake Griffiths.
The photographic works of Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks traverse themes of womanhood, childhood and mortality.
At a time when it feels more important than ever to support local artists, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is relaunching by celebrating the state’s art, visual language and storytelling with The View From Here.
In art, a sense of mystery can capture a viewer’s imagination, creating a reprieve from our current reality. But as market forces risk turning identity into commodity, who is granted the privilege of artistic mystique?
With textiles as her medium, Hannah Gartside engages with the histories and textures of material—and is creating new work for MCA’s Primavera, centred on five powerful women.
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is reopening with a new $50m building, and a new identity. With eight exhibitions lined up, alongside unveiling its ceramic workshop, outdoor amphitheatre and tourist centre, its aiming to be a community hub as much as a gallery.
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