“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.
With current debates in the Australian media landscape on who should review a work of art, Sophia Cai questions the myth of critical neutrality.
With a 25-year practice confronting colonial histories, First Nations artist Archie Moore will represent Australia in the 60th Venice Biennale, calling on family history—“something I avoided and was wary of going there”—as “one component” of the project. He’s also the second solo Indigenous artist to represent Australia at the global art event.
Why are we so hard on pink? Thinking Through Pink at Wollongong Art Gallery revels in a lush, complicated colour.
“I never grew up with representation in those queer spaces, so creating my own works has really helped.” In stunning moments of joy and connection, Dylan Mooney’s art depicts the love between queer Indigenous people.
NAP Contemporary’s group show, The Elephant Table, platforms six artists and voices—creating chaos, connection and conversation.
Key artworks from the East Kimberley Art Movement have been restored and are on display in Ride on, shine on at the South Australian Museum.
By reducing barriers to entry, a Western Australian art prize fosters a freer approach to artmaking—and invites more experimental practices to take centre stage.
For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.
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.
Healing: Art & Institutional Care, at La Trobe Art Institute, suggests a methodology on how galleries and exhibitions can repair complicated tensions.
