Tamara Dean has been capturing the intimate relationship between people interacting with the environment for over a decade. In her first monograph, published by Thames and Hudson, the artist offers generous insight on her critically acclaimed practice. Here, David Wenham reflects on Dean’s captivating work.
The Amazon is reaching a tipping point. Once a proportion of the rainforest is lost, it will no longer be able to hold the necessary moisture to create the rainfall to sustain itself. Massive dieback will occur with a devastating release of carbon into the atmosphere with a major global impact on climate change.
How does one make an artwork about this? One that possesses a dazzling beauty and, at the same time, has the ability to stop you in your tracks and shock you into action?
The ground-breaking and historic Melbourne Fringe Festival is being celebrated in a major exhibition at the State Library of Victoria. The show reflects on 40 years of Fringe while also looking 40 years ahead.
One of Australia’s most regarded living artists with a 60-year practice, Elisabeth Cummings creates captivating paintings that move in and out of abstract interiors, landscapes and still life. View, in pictures, Cummings’s enthralling new work at King Street Gallery on William.
Celebrating the art and design of the local Victorian community with over 200 artists and makers, Melbourne/Naarm NOW is returning to the The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, following its triumphant 2013 iteration.
In 1966 in the Northern Territory, 200 Gurindji workers pushed forward the land rights movement in Australia. Known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the strike protested Aboriginal land dispossession and worker exploitation. Now, Still in My Mind at ANU Drill Hall Gallery examines this significant moment.
“I think it is also about the fact that, in terms of power structures, artists want to remove mechanisms that hinder their capacity for creative freedom,” says artist, writer and curator David Cross in the second episode of our latest podcast, Conflated.
A highly respected cultural and arts leader, Pitjantjatjara woman Sally Scales began painting only a few years ago—and the results are beguiling, leading to Scales being a current NATSIAA finalist at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
“People are interested in what I want to say, and how I want to say it,” says Bruno Booth, who makes art that challenges the ableist world—but he’d rather you call him a ‘con artist’ than a contemporary artist. He’s also a current finalist in the 2022 John Stringer Prize at John Curtin Gallery.
Known for his works combining technology and ochre, Robert Andrew talks candidly about the power dynamics and frustrations with language, discovering his Aboriginal heritage, and becoming an artist later in life. Revisit our interview with Andrew before the closing of his major solo at Museum of Old and New Art (Mona).
‘Vádye Eshgh (The Valley of Love)’ is a collaboration between Second Generation Collective and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah weaving through themes of beauty, diversity and the rebuilding of identity.
They might have been continents apart, but visual artists Man Ray and Max Dupain were aligned in their experimental vision, as a major exhibition at the Heide attests.
In its 34th year, Primavera—the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual survey of Australian artists 35 and under—might be about to age out of itself, but with age it seems, comes wisdom and perspective.
Drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s show Place Makers, reframes the artists—who just happen to be female.
Harnessing multiple disciplines across silk, paper and sound, Rainbow Chan’s solo show, Notations: Red Scale, connects with the women before her, re-animating existing histories in new light.
In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape.
