“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.
Andy Butler, Lisa Hilli and James Nguyen each engage the power dynamics that shape public culture. Their works are informed by personal histories of migration from Southeast Asia, and they have a mutual crossover of experience—being one generation away from the village, they now navigate spaces founded on exclusion and prestige. They speak to this in their incredibly insightful three-way conversation.
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework…” wrote French feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Adelaide-based artist Zoe Freney mentions this quote when talking about Work from Home at Newmarch Gallery.
Ochre Painters of the Kimberley at Japingka Aboriginal Art features paintings from the likes of Jack Britten, Shirley Purdie, Queenie McKenzie and Rover Thomas—and many works have never been publicly displayed until now.
Artist-run and experimental spaces are central to Australian art. While scores of such spaces exist throughout Australian art history, we asked five artists—Bonita Ely, David Chesworth, Diego Ramirez, Kenny Pittock and Michael Lindeman—to tell us about their early works in experimental spaces, and how these formative experiences became pivotal to their practices.
The last few years have been characterised by grief and loss, alongside an unwavering hope for a flourishing future—it’s a dichotomy many artists are trying to capture, which Sam Jinks does exquisitely in his latest show at Sullivan+Strumpf Melbourne.
Many artists have boycotted arts events and organisations over unethical funding and partnership concerns. But, asks Timmah Ball, should this burden always be placed on artists alone, particularly when the ability to boycott is its own privilege?
From a ‘Eulogy for the Dyke Bar’ to ‘Queering the Collection’, there’s a dazzling, poignant array of major Sydney WorldPride exhibitions opening this February, all across the city.
Summer 2023-2024 will see three major, pioneering artists showing across the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
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.
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.
In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour.
Tasmanian artist Helen Wright’s survey exhibition, Shapeshifting at Queen Victoria and Gallery: Art Gallery at Royal Park, chronicles decades of practice across mediums to reveal new meanings.
