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Amber Boardman’s large-scale paintings look at how both decision fatigue and the internet are shaping our lives and interactions.
Stranger, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), is a survey show which offers an insight into the way David Keeling sees Tasmania.
With organza, tulle, empty photo frames and ash, Sonja Porcaro gently peels back the divergent histories of Sauerbier House and Ngangkiparinga, the adjacent saltwater river.
Weaving is synonymous with world-making. In numerous cultures, the loom is a metaphor for creation; a person’s life often represented by a spun thread.
“Sometimes it’s like I have a big spinning sort of feeling in my body: hard to soft, angles and sharpness, then really beautiful and cuddly and soft.”
Constructing Landscape: urban visions reflects a new chapter in the nation’s consideration of how the urban environment might be represented.
The Blade explores the Australian history of lawn from kangaroo grass to the footy field; the scythe to the electric mower; the suburban Hills Hoist to the sweeping verdure of state buildings.
Developed by the Dax Centre, an institution which focuses on using art to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues, Child and Mother is an exhibition reflecting on childhood trauma, motherhood and the relationships we form.
Wrestling with both excessive consumption and planned obsolescence in technology, New for Old takes as its starting point the cathode-ray tube TV.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.
bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country, curated by Jonathan Jones and now showing at Bundanon, highlights a long history of Indigenous art on the New South Wales south coast, with works and installations from Jones, Aunty Julie Freeman, Aunty Cheryl Davison, and Mickey of Ulladulla.
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.
