For over 50 years, Peter Tyndall has relentlessly explored what it means to look at art. With an extraordinary retrospective at Buxton Contemporary, Tyndall talks about seriousness and humour, buddhism and postmodernism, his catholic upbringing, and how he looks at a work of art.
Gardens tell us a lot about the natural world and the ways in which humans respond to and shape their surroundings. Catherine Truman spent a year researching at Adelaide’s historic Carrick Hill estate, emerging with work that speaks to the tension between the constructed and natural.
Geoffrey Bartlett’s new exhibition at Australian Galleries Melbourne sees the renowned sculptor’s career, in many ways, come full circle.
“The fog that keeps my words at bay is a sieve, and the colours move through it.” Madeline Simm’s inaugural solo exhibition, Blue Skirt Waltz, presents new abstract paintings at CHAUFFEUR.
The 2023 Glover Prize has been announced, with Tasmanian-based artist Joanna Chew taking home the $75,000 prize for her painting Tender.
Congratulations to Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins, who has won the 2023 La Prairie Art Award for a series of poignant portraits representing three generations of her family members.
Darwin-based artist Dawn Beasley uses nature as a reference point for her ceramic sculptures. The third instalment in her series, Botanically Porcelain, is coming to the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art.
The night sky tells many stories. For Indigenous Australians, it is also a symbol of sovereignty. Taking over the entirety of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Black Sky asserts this sovereign vision.
From sustainability to non-living participants to waterways, this year’s 23rd Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of nature through 89 participants and over 330 artworks. Ahead of the opening this Saturday, we talked to artistic director José Roca and curatorial member Anna Davis, about the ideas and processes behind the Biennale.
For hundreds of years, artists have captured—and even been obsessed with—faces. Spanning over a century and more than 50 artists, 100 Faces at Monash Gallery of Art reveals the diversity of photographic portraiture.
This year’s Sculpture by the Sea—an annual seaside sculpture show in Western Australia—asks the central questions of existence with an exquisite light sculpture by Takeshi Tanabe, travelling three kilometres into the night sky. Plus, the winner of the $60,000 Sculpture by the Sea Acquisitive Award has been revealed.
The artistic exchanges between the Philippines and Australia is not only about art, but also “serves as an argument for cultural policy that sparks a new kind of dynamism”. Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith follows this idea, showing at Queensland Art Gallery.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale was a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead. kith and kin is now on display at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until 18 October 2025.
New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.
