“I was sort of staggered,” says writer Jennifer Higgie. “Why hadn’t I ever been taught about these women? Why weren’t they included in mainstream art histories?” Higgie is talking about the marginalisation of women in art history—and it’s something she speaks to in our latest podcast episode.
“I’m drawn to the unassuming ordinariness of the everyday.” With a solo show at Linden New Art, Honor Freeman creates exquisite, tactile ceramic objects, often crafting domestic items like bars of soap and buckets. We asked her 20 quick questions—everything from creating and mourning, to her favourite colour to work with.
There’s a meditative, otherworldly quality to Rae Begley’s photographs, which are moving for their depiction of diverse, geological landscapes. View, in pictures, Begley’s On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing now showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
From the Iraq War to natural disasters, since the 1970s acclaimed artist Susan Norrie continues to show us scenes of tragedy and mystery. Now her work is being situated alongside other contemporary female artists at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
In 2009 Megan Cope began a new series of works called After the flood. After recently losing her studio in the Lismore floods, the Quandamooka artist didn’t realise how prescient this title would be—and now she’s showing everywhere from Melbourne to Shepparton to Paris.
From The Fox: NGV Contemporary to the Sydney Modern Project, to major overhauls of regional art spaces, hundreds of millions of dollars are being funnelled into museum buildings. But are these new buildings being privileged over artists, or is this the future investment we need?
The brilliant, blue bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) of Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr have seen growing acclaim for not only their formal qualities, but how they speak of Country and contemporary politics. Munuŋgurr’s latest exhibition is now showing at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Emu Sky invites audiences to reflect on the importance of respecting, resourcing and valuing Indigenous knowledge of Country. This vast exhibition, held at Melbourne University’s Old Quad, showcases work from more than 30 Aboriginal community members across south-eastern Australia. Learn the stories behind four featured artworks.
Congratulations to Margaret Rarru Garrawurra for winning the 2022 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). Her award-winning work powerfully references her cultural identity and the long-lasting relationships between Yolŋu people and the people of Indonesia—and it’s exhibiting in Darwin alongside other NATSIAA winners and finalists.
Bush Diwan takes as its departure point the remarkable life of Siva Singh. A Punjabi Sikh from India who migrated to Benalla in 1897, Singh left an immense legacy with his community leadership and civil rights activism. Five women artists at Benalla Art Gallery celebrate Singh’s life, alongside addressing wider social points.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
By reducing barriers to entry, a Western Australian art prize fosters a freer approach to artmaking—and invites more experimental practices to take centre stage.
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
For contemporary jeweller Kyoko Hashimoto, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia marks a shift in her approach to materials and method, with a renewed focus on sustainability.
