In the second article from an Art Guide Australia series on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan looks at two exhibitions featuring Indigenous artists.
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
Unidentified fossils discovered in the Flinders Ranges form the basis of an exhibition by Berlin-based artist, Mariana Castillo Deball.
Despite being a multidisciplinary artist, Griggs is primarily known for his vivid and chaotic portraits.
This is not an exhibition to digest quickly or casually…
Western Australian artist Jack Caddy’s Made from pillars of spit launches a tragi-comedic critique of what happens when saliva becomes transferable digital information. “How do we navigate this new field where it only takes your third cousin spitting in a tube for someone to identify you?”
The first Australian show from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the Beirut-based, British-Lebanese sound artist and self-described ‘audio investigator’, is a complex, politicised interrogation of the possibilities and mysteries of sonic experience.
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles which turn the spotlight on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan examines the rise of interest in weaving by taking a close look at the work of Broken Hill-based artist Blake Griffiths.
The photographic works of Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks traverse themes of womanhood, childhood and mortality.
In The Work, the focus is on the labouring body. How do bodies act and react when they are put to work? What might this reveal about physical strength and limitations, power dynamics and social relations?
Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been awarded the $40,000 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The Sydney-based artist was selected from a field of nine finalists for his body of work titled Pantheon.
Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Sydney-based artist Merran Esson has won the $20,000 acquisitive award in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019. Her ceramic work Autumn on the Monaro will become part of the permanent collection at Woollahra Council.
“I am most interested in working collaboratively and closely with artists to develop their ideas and to give them a platform to experiment and create new works or new experiences through their work.” – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Curator Anna Davis.
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
In the third article in an Art Guide Australia series on textiles, Rebecca Shanahan notes the influence of textile techniques on both other mediums and broader culture by delving into the group show Exploded Textiles at Tamworth Regional Gallery.
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