The second Mordant Family VR commission has been awarded to Joan Ross who will realise an ambitious project in the style of a video game for ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).
NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin has announced that Dr Michael Brand has been reappointed as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
Piccinini’s work is inspired by research into genetic technologies, from gene splicing and IVF in the 1990s, through to recent advancements in genetic coding.
French artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni speculate on the future of us, and the solar system, in a two part special at Mona.
Stieg Persson’s practice has dealt with a multiplicity of themes over the decades. His survey show reveals this polyphony, steadied by art history.
This year the prize went to Yvette Coppersmith for her Self-portrait, after George Lambert.
Wood smoke floats gently over the harbour from a far corner of Cockatoo Island. Under an open-sided shelter, fire is contained in steel drums.
Presented by Sabbia Gallery and the Remote Communities Ceramic Network, Clay Stories brings together ceramics from 22 emerging and established Indigenous artists who work from remote Australia.
As the lift doors open on Tolarno Galleries, where Bill Henson’s latest collection of untitled photographs is currently on display, the subdued temple-like atmosphere is immediately affecting.
The group exhibition and performance program Into my Arms at ACE Open contemplates ‘the embrace’ in performance, installation and a series of new commissions.
Mathematical Expressionist is a survey of work by painter Edwin Tanner (1920-1980). Accompanying 60 works from Tanner’s 30-year oeuvre is The Arbour and the Orrery, by artist and composer James Hullick whose mechanised sound installations engage Tanner’s works in dialogue.
Congratulations to James Bugg who has taken out the $50,000 first prize in the 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
At first glance, Nick Cave’s Until is a charm offensive: a crowd-pleasing, selfie-backdrop, colour-and-movement spectacle complete with accompanying gift shop, but there are tougher meanings here too.
Both Frida and Diego were productive and intensive artists, so they collected photographs as iconography to paint from.
Building on traditional knowledge and aesthetics, John Mawurndjul has established a thoroughly contemporary practice.
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