Yandel Walton wants us to be both alert and alarmed. Her exhibition Shifting Surrounds, at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, immerses visitors in the climate emergency.
Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, on at multiple Sydney Living Museums sites, invites audiences to reflect on the pleasures and pitfalls of selfie culture.
The vibrant multi-disciplinary works of Noongar artist Patrick William Carter are, in their way, love stories: love of family, music, Country and culture.
Energetic, famously outspoken and determined, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor transformed the MCA, allowing free access for all — and for most of her 20 years as director, she was the only female head of a major Australian art museum.
“Our country and culture has been there all the time, it is our strength, our dream, and our stories. No one can take that away from us. So, we’ve got to tell that story and share it.” – Jimmy Frank, Tennant Creek Brio
The 2021 Adelaide//International features works by James Tylor, Fayen d’Evie, Taloi Havini and Jesse Jones. Together, at the Samstag Museum of Art, they ponder what a more equitable future might hold.
Adam John Cullen views his sculptural vessels as a kind of biographical excavation: his latest show, Elton, references the name of his Grandmother’s childhood corgi-mix.
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.
With an eye for capturing the colonial holds of history while communicating her profound spiritual connection to Country, in My Place – Before Marlene Gilson paints the history of her home.
Painter Jack Lanagan Dunbar uses copper and gestural mark-making to capture both the folly of humanity and the awesome power of nature in his solo show Signal, part of Art Month Sydney.
In his solo show at Macquarie University Art Gallery, Pandemic Bodies, Fan Dongwang tries to raise awareness of humanity’s shortcomings.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.
Heide Museum of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster exhibition is unveiling the breadth and beauty of Italian modernism through design. With over 170 objects spanning sixty years, Molto Bello explores the cultural impact of this period of creativity and invention.
A new event has arrived in Melbourne’s cultural calendar with the inauguration of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: an exhibition that aims to showcase the breadth and diversity of contemporary sculpture in Victoria.
