A faux Esther Williams gets a Brazilian butt lift in Meat Mirror, a schlock horror collaborative show by Jay Younger and Lisa O’Neill in the 2021 Brisbane Art Design (BAD) festival.
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?
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 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.
Community is the foundation of Claire Conroy’s exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery. As a new arrival to the area, her art practice ties her to fellow artists, while her medium, camera obscura, allows for a deepening of social connections with her sitters as they commit to the shoot.
Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey has been creating artwork for more than three decades. Describing his style as pictograms of a scenario, with images and symbols connecting a sprawling narrative, Hookey’s work, which is now showing at Plimsoll Gallery, is imbued with elements of activism, pop culture and lived experience.
