From her feminist prints and posters of the 1970s to her later landscape paintings, Mandy Martin’s (1952-2021) retrospective at Geelong Gallery shows her long-term fight for the Australian environment.
Lee Alexander McQueen was born in 1968, so he was young in the 1980s, absorbing all the flashes of art, design and culture in which postmodernism flourished.
A renowned Australian painter, the many sides of Peter Booth have been unfolding since the 1960s in works of dark narrative. Now, a new survey at TarraWarra Museum of Art traces what Booth tells us about humanity.
In blazes of colours, images and fonts, Paul Yore’s installations and textiles are like nothing else. We asked Yore 20 quick questions on everything from censorship to tragi-comedy to Dolly Parton.
From sparkling seances to environmental care, Sydney Festival is back for the city’s summer crowds. With over 100 events across Sydney from 5 -29 January—including 18 world premieres and 14 Australian exclusives, from the city centre to Shoalhaven—here are our visual arts highlights.
From working with spider diviners to creating solarpowered hot air balloons, Tomás Saraceno’s exquisite art shows what we can learn from nature to rethink everything from climate change to wealth inequality.
For better or worse, data is intrinsic to modern life. In recent months with various data breach scandals, Australians have been reminded of its omnipresence— and in Data Relations at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, artists explore how data manifests both personally and societally.
In Equilibrium at Heide Museum of Modern Art is the first major survey exhibition of Barbara Hepworth’s work in Australia; its title alludes to Hepworth’s ability to meld empty space with solid form, texture and colour to create a unified whole.
In our latest podcast, Katie West talks about dyeing textiles, creating spaces of meditation, and facing experiences of racism—all in a conversation centred on care and creating, linking with the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Notions of Care at Ararat Gallery TAMA.
With works exploring his Thai-Australian heritage, Nathan Beard’s latest solo show at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art continues his nuanced understanding of identity as fluid and permeable.
One of the most significant designers of his generation, Alexander McQueen’s subversive designs pushed the boundaries of fashion—and the National Gallery of Victoria is revealing the theatrical breadth of his work in their major summer exhibition.
We’ve curated our pick of outstanding regional exhibitions across the country this summer. From landmark shows devoted to First Nations artists to exhibitions on sport, VR, landscapes and the nature of painting, there is much to see outside the city—from Bathurst to the Sunshine Coast, and much more.
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.
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
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.
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.
