This year women have won all three awards in the National Photographic Portrait Prize including the top prize, the Highly Commended award and the Art Handlers’ Award.
On the ground in Washington DC, Australian artist Georgia Saxelby is rallying for participation in both art and feminist discourse.
In general, the photos surrounding the process of filmmaking are not thought of as art objects or as portraiture. Yet Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, presented by the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, displays these photographs precisely as portraiture.
Nothing is what it used to be in the group show Just Not Australian. This is probably just as well, since the cultural artefacts that form much of the show’s raw material are not always pretty.
Love and Desire at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) will bring 100 Pre-Raphaelite paintings, drawings and decorative objects to Canberra.
Rather than simply relegating the voice to mere sound, in Seeing voices the voice comes to us in many utterances and instances. It is linguistic, cultural, social, gendered, human and post-human. In this regional touring exhibition the voice is explored as a visual, political and material entity.
At the heart of Danjoo – Interwoven is pride in Country, community and culture.
Are some exhibitions being designed for the social media experience?
Mairi Ward creates patterns evocative of the way nature regenerates: tiny microcosms teeming just below the surface, ready to spring into action.
Desert River Sea plunges visitors into the complexity and aspirations of the Kimberley.
A Centre for Everything is a socially-engaged creative project operating at the intersection of art, learning, food, play, and activism.
There is no shortage of drama in Borrowed Scenery, which is perhaps the point—to take female artists out of scenes shaped by the male gaze and to place them on their own stages.
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
MIRKA, a new show at the Jewish Museum of Australia, allows audiences to hear Mirka Mora’s voice and see the artist’s work through the lens of her rich Jewish cultural heritage.
From towering freeway sculpture to tiny glass-encased dioramas, Louise Paramor’s distinctive assemblages evoke both familiarity and wonder.
Now in its third iteration, The National 2021 is about care, hope, storytelling, and triumph through adversity.
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