With a poignant blend of traditional culture and contemporary aesthetics that’s seen his printmaking in the 2022 Biennale of Sydney and Tarnanthi Festival, Teho Ropeyarn’s latest work looks at his mother’s story—and is showing for The National.
“He was a poet of the Australian landscape, a storyteller of our country and a lyricist of humanity.” A stalwart of Australian art, the passing of painter John Olsen has seen flowing tributes.
The late Carla Zampatti is celebrated in a splendid retrospective Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum.
“Everybody has their own sense of truth.” The acclaimed photographer Steve McCurry, particularly known for his iconic photograph of an Afghan girl with green eyes which featured on the cover of National Geographic, has been travelling and documenting the world for over 40 years. Ahead of his Sydney retrospective, he talks about his iconic images, photographing people fleeing war, and what truth means today.
“I think the artist’s role can be to create these different relationships between people who don’t normally feel they can talk to each other,” says Eugenia Lim, an artist in Okkoota. Meaning gathering, assembly or alliance, Okkoota finds a sense of community in disparate histories at Melbourne’s Arts House.
With young creators showing their final high school art across the country, we spoke to potential artists about everything from climate change to diversity to career viability in the arts. And we learnt that for many, it’s less about art as a career, and more about incorporating creativity into whatever they do.
Next month’s budget will provide $535.3 million extra over four years for nine major cultural and historical institutions.
The art world is an enterprise famously built on personal networks—but, as Sophia Cai writes, that doesn’t mean your best friends should also be your curators, collectors, profilers, show essayists, reviewers, installers and co-exhibiters.
Sophie Lampert’s soft, sculptural works explore the lives and atypical vocations of women throughout history, and are on display at Orange Regional Gallery.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist who works with photography and moving image. Having won the 66th Blake Prize in 2021, her art focuses on little-known histories. Ahead of exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Stevens talks about creating from history.
Working en plein air, Clarice Beckett’s tonalist paintings capture not only the likeness of a place, but how it felt to be there. The historical artist has been gaining a devoted and deserved following, with Geelong Gallery now showing her work from the 1920s and 30s.
Sneakers are a cultural phenomenon made up of paradoxes. Some see them as an accessible and inclusive force in fashion that serve as an outlet of self-expression for many; yet to others they are a symbol of out-of-control consumerism. Two Queensland exhibitions are embracing these dualities, though from contrasting angles: Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at HOTA on the Gold Coast, and Torsion at Brisbane’s Metro Arts.
For Betty Muffler art making and healing are indistinguishable. Evoking Country through the view of the eagle, she’s now showing in the NGV Triennial alongside a host of international names.
A comprehensive new survey at the National Gallery of Australia pays tribute to Emily Kam Kngwarray and the Country she loved.
Adelaide’s annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art festival returns, and this year includes the first-ever survey exhibition by Vincent Namatjira, as well as artworks by over 1500 Indigenous artists.
Nick Modrzewski combines his art practice with a similarly intense career in the law. His new paintings at COMA gallery explore the way human bodies fit (or don’t) within the institutional structures that guide our societies.
In a new show at Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Alex Hamilton paints urban spaces as vast landscapes.
