Smartphone snaps: Lawrence English’s take on Brisbane life
Through the stark aesthetic of his smartphone images, Lawrence English provides a striking take on life during lockdown.
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Through the stark aesthetic of his smartphone images, Lawrence English provides a striking take on life during lockdown.
Our online lives are on steroids at present. Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online is prescient in this regard. Planned as a physical exhibition, it segued onto the internet with the pandemic and social-distancing.
While he firmly established a specific vision for the art he wanted to make, John Nixon always remained an artist who loved to experiment and explore.
Working between Melbourne and Bangkok, Lesley Dumbrell has sent us snaps of home life: creating, gardening and pets.
Danie Mellor’s new online exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, The Sun Also Sets, made up of paintings and large-format photomontages, is a deeply considered meditation on time, culture and the notion of ‘landspace.’
With Friendship as a Way of Life, curators Doley and José da Silva present a celebratory testament to the way that LGBTQI+ artists and communities have imparted space, time and support to one another by building kinship structures.
Curious, mystical, humourous and bittersweet, Willoh S. Weiland uses her smartphone to give us a sense of living and working in Hobart.
Living and working from Mimili in the APY Lands, Robert Fielding, via his smartphone, shows us the beauty of his surrounds.
The theme of the 2020 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair is The Cultural Evolution.
Lightning bolts, textiles painting, Sonic Youth, smiley faces and sculpture: with her smartphone, Nell has captured her life and art making in her Sydney home.
Using her smartphone, Julia Robinson is giving us a look into her life and practice: her textiles, her cat Chewbacca, and where she lives and creates.
Kylie Stillman’s silhouetted carvings of natural forms, such as trees and birds, are built up slowly over days and weeks, hollowed out from stacks of reinforced paper or timber with hand tools, knives and jigsaws.
In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost.
Existing in the space between ritual, performance and ceremony, the body-centred work of Latai Taumoepeau rewrites the stories that shape our perception of Oceania—while using ancient traditions to tackle our most urgent modern concerns. Taumoepeau is now participating in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania at Artspace.
Congratulations to Aisha Sherman-Noth, who has won the 2025 Glover Prize for Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist wins $80,000 for the painting, which depicts weeping birch and poplar trees along the Brooker Highway into Hobart.
For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.
The Future & Other Fictions, a landmark exhibition at ACMI, reflects both the cultural forces that determine our reality and the power of imagining our world anew.
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.
