The 2021 Australia Council Awards honoured Vivienne Binns OAM for her outstanding commitment to Visual Arts, Cat Jones for her contribution to Emerging and Experimental Arts, and Marianne Wobcke received the Australia Council Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery has reopened with a new exhibition centred on an elemental force: light.
“I do something every day, even if it’s only a scribble. But of course I still have doubts. There is no certainty in this game. There are no rules.”
In her newest work, Angela Tiatia uses the myth of narcissus to hold a mirror to how we live today.
With the first participants announced, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is centred on rīvus, a Latin word which can be translated as ‘stream’.
Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.
In This Brittle Light, at Buxton Contemporary, six Light Source Commissions, which began as online works during the pandemic, transition into the gallery space and underline why art matters, no matter where you see it.
Fiona Hall is a seasoned storyteller. In her installations EXODUST at AGNSW and Who goes here? at Hyde Park Barracks, she use the language of art – both subtle and bold – to step in where words fail.
Mapping data from conflict zones and disaster areas, Stanislava Pinchuk (also known as Miso) creates art that reflects upon trauma, memory and landscape.
Ruth Burgess filters the work of a 17th century astronomer and her own youthful career as an experimental composer through a decades-long printmaking practice in her latest solo show, The Music of the Planets at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
From cute to uncanny, absurd to naughty, Matthew Harris talks about camp aesthetics, growing up in a country town, and his latest show The Simple Life at Galerie pompom.
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940, co-curated by the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, celebrates 50 Australian women artists who travelled to Europe during the early 20th century.
Curator and proud palawa/pallawah woman, Dr Jessica Clark’s latest exhibition In the air at The Substation connects First Nations and non-First Nations artists in a response to human consumption and environmental destruction through reflection, resistance and redirection.
Elysha Rei’s exhibition Shirozato to Shinju (White Sugar and Pearls) at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville QLD, explores the interconnected histories of the Japanese diaspora in Australia.
As I walk through the suburban streets, I find myself thinking about the publication Speech Patterns: Nadia Hernández & Jon Campbell. It accompanied their two-person exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2022, which explored their shared preoccupations with class, identity and value systems.
In his first commercial presentation in Australia, one of Mexico’s most acclaimed contemporary artists uses his architectural background to create poetic, finely calibrated sculptural investigations of spatial perception, balance and equilibrium. Jose Dávila’s Physics of Uncertainty is now showing at COMA Gallery.
Taja Vaetoru’s debut solo exhibition Idol, now showing .M Contemporary, explores their Polynesian ancestry, questions of tradition and worship, and how to intersect the past with the present.
