“I’m doing that something humans do: I’m trying to explain this time to myself by making something from it and about it,” says artist Kate Tucker in our new podcast mini-series on art, creating and care, linking with the NETS Victoria touring exhibition Notions Of Care.
From being a carpenter on the Wollongong waterfront to working at Bunnings and then becoming a successful artist, it’s little wonder Dan Moynihan’s practice reveals a love of materials, alongside a good dose of humour—as his new show at Tolarno illustrates.
“Protesters’ willingness to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs is always inspiring,” says Palawa artist Jemima Wyman on creating art centering resistance movements. Ahead of her showing in Air at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, we talk about her first protest and what compels her to acts of resistance.
Once called ‘Unaustralian’ by their own previous funders, Soda Jerk’s latest film at Samstag Museum of Art centres the moments that have defined the last six years: a pandemic, the Trump era, QAnon, the war in Ukraine and climate disaster.
From his cosmological interests that earned an asteroid named after him, to his vibrant paintings of clouds and marine life, Torres Strait Islands artist Segar Passi is being honoured in a six-decade retrospective at Cairns Art Gallery.
For decades painter Bruce Thurrowgood has committed himself to depicting the essence of light, reflected in his latest paintings at Handmark Gallery.
“They’re visualising Country as spirit”: First Nations artists Maddison Gibbs and salllvage have been practicing deep listening to express connection to Country, exhibiting sound and sculpture works at Cement Fondu.
The Omie is a community living in the remote rainforest mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province creating the art of tapa—a tradition spanning across the Pacific. When Skirts Become Artworks: Sihoti’e Nioge, showing at Caloundra Regional Gallery, reveals the Omie’s distinctive tapa designs.
For far too long depictions of Australian landscapes have been dominated by male artists. Now the Art Gallery of Ballarat is showcasing reinterpretations of Australian Impressionism by female photographers, focusing on gender, migration and First Nations history.
Kate Rohdes’s whimsical sculptures are simultaneously natural, unnatural, and even supernatural. In a space shared with her fluffy ginger cat Lion and her 6-year-old son, Rohde’s warehouse in Melbourne’s Northcote is a busy site of creativity and play.
Tim Price’s latest series of paintings at Penny Contemporary playfully evoke the strange and surprising moments in life.
As we move toward the end of 2022, another year of many changes and adjustments, one thing for certain is that Australia holds strong in celebrating art and culture. Here’s seven new gallery spaces to visit this summer.
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.
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.
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.
Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Wollongong Art Gallery, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting.
