Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist who works with photography and moving image. Having won the 66th Blake Prize in 2021, her art focuses on little-known histories. Ahead of exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Stevens talks about creating from history.
Through evocative tableau photographs, Yuki Kihara, a Pasifika and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s ‘third gender’) artist from Aotearoa, is dismantling gender roles and ‘returning the gaze’ to Pacific Islanders.
Known for his photographic explorations of history, culture, and family, Michael Cook’s latest images showing at Jan Murphy Gallery tell the story of a travelling family—and how they begin to question everything around them.
Mel O’Callaghan’s art delves into one of our most fundamental questions.
Melbourne Now has arrived. Featuring over 200 Victorian artists, it’s a staggering, landmark celebration of local art at NGV Australia. Ahead of the show’s opening, we asked five artists to talk through their exhibiting work.
Sarah crowEST is particularly known for her “strap-on paintings”—large, wearable objects on stretched cloth that can be exhibited or worn. Ahead of her inclusion in Melbourne Now and her solo at LON Gallery, we caught crowEST in the final days of her residency at Billilla Mansion in Melbourne, where she talks through the importance of sustainability.
In 1966, American pop artist Robert Indiana created Love, an iconic image in which the word “love” appears in red letters on a blue and green background. Since then, it’s been reproduced ad nauseam in painting, print and sculpture. Enter Melbourne-based artist Clare Longley, who repositions such romanticised imagery from a queer perspective.
Porcelain and sound waves do not immediately come to mind when thinking about textiles, yet these are the materials some artists are using to produce their textile-based work. Casting a wide net for Pliable Planes at Ballarat Art Gallery, co-curators Karen Hall and Catherine Woolley specifically looked for artists whose practice expanded the creative parameters of contemporary textiles.
For over 50 years, Peter Tyndall has relentlessly explored what it means to look at art. With an extraordinary retrospective at Buxton Contemporary, Tyndall talks about seriousness and humour, buddhism and postmodernism, his catholic upbringing, and how he looks at a work of art.
Gardens tell us a lot about the natural world and the ways in which humans respond to and shape their surroundings. Catherine Truman spent a year researching at Adelaide’s historic Carrick Hill estate, emerging with work that speaks to the tension between the constructed and natural.
Geoffrey Bartlett’s new exhibition at Australian Galleries Melbourne sees the renowned sculptor’s career, in many ways, come full circle.
“The fog that keeps my words at bay is a sieve, and the colours move through it.” Madeline Simm’s inaugural solo exhibition, Blue Skirt Waltz, presents new abstract paintings at CHAUFFEUR.
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.
With a 50-year practice exploring her Chinese heritage, longing and belonging, Zen spiritualism and the endless nature of being, Lindy Lee is now unveiling the pinnacle of her art.
Peter Hill interviews Simryn Gill about the exhibition Stolon Press: Flat earth at Monash University Museum of Art.
