On Our Country vividly shows how the Spinifex Artists have been reconnecting with waterholes and Dreaming sites that their families were forced to leave over half a century ago. Painting is one of many ways that their stories are retold and recorded.
Peta Kruger is familiar with waste anxiety, that stress phenomenon that implicates all of us in the crisis of over-consumption and our growing landfill scourge.
Drawing upon passing scenes from life, and filled with allusions to pop culture, Anne Wallace’s realist paintings deliver images that flitter between intimate and suspenseful.
The new Granville Centre Art Gallery in western Sydney opens this month with a resounding statement of First Nations strength and solidarity.
Turning 30 is a major milestone, well worth celebrating. So Linden New Art is throwing an online party to mark three decades of their annual award exhibition, the Linden Postcard Show.
When Vincent Namatjira won the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture for Stand strong for who you are, his painting of AFL player Adam Goodes, there was a widely held feeling that justice had been done.
Indigenous geometry, hip-hop and road movies—welcome to the art of Reko Rennie.
Tinged with sadness and a wicked sense of humour, Karla Dickens creates art that speaks of identity, discrimination and acts of violence against Aboriginal people. In our interview, Dickens talks about creating new work, her hometown of Lismore, and the importance of writing poetry.
A new sculpture exhibition considers how our experience of space is psychological, cultural and surreal.
Thompson, who got her start at the Aboriginal owned and operated art centre Ernabella Arts in the APY Lands, is an artist who effortlessly works across multiple mediums including painting, printmaking, wood carving, ceramics and fibre-based works.
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.
A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.
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.
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.
