Madeline Simm’s ethereal paintings waltz to their own beat
“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 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.
“You can’t overestimate watching films in Yolŋu language about you, your culture, your language and your life. It is epic.” Based in North East Arnhem Land, The Mulka Project is centred on sustaining Yolŋu cultural knowledge—and now their exquisite 60-metre projection will grace the National Gallery of Australia.
The male gaze has infiltrated art history—and life in general. Now, seven women artists at MARS Gallery are centring their own perspective in A Female Gaze.
The South African-born, Stockholm-based artist has been travelling the world recording the prayers of various faith groups and exhibiting the results—now it’s the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s turn.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
A search for beauty is behind Skin tight, the first solo exhibition in Australia for the American artist Tschabalala Self, whose works (on view at ACCA) seek to alter the power dynamic between viewer and subject.
In its 24th year, Australia’s most prestigious award for small-scale sculpture has announced its winners for 2025, with the 54 finalists now on display at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
For its 25th edition, the Biennale of Sydney has announced additional artists, project highlights and initial programming, running free to the public from 14 March—14 June, 2026.
