Between worlds
The conceptual backbone of Bundit Puangthong’s art is the tension between holding onto the past and letting go.
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The conceptual backbone of Bundit Puangthong’s art is the tension between holding onto the past and letting go.
Sophia Cai discusses the hidden costs of doing what you love.
As toilet paper (or the lack of it) made national headlines, artist Adrienne Doig turned a by-product of this basic commodity – the left over cardboard rolls – into a feel-good doll-making project anyone can do at home.
Australian artists Bessie Davidson (1879–1965) and Sally Smart are connected not only by relation: they are also both strong feminist presences in male-dominated, avant-garde traditions.
Colin Langridge responds to the global environmental crisis with a series of large-scale wooden sculptures at Colville Gallery.
Louise Gresswell gives us an insight into the very process of painting itself.
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), which re-opened to the public on 2 June, has announced new dates for the major international exhibition, Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London.
In Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide asks artists what they’ve been reading while working through the pandemic. In the third part of this series, Tracey Clement found out what Mark Schaller has on his bookshelves.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Always was, always will be, a ‘pocket exhibition’ on the Art Gallery of New South Wales website, Kolour Me Kweer: a glittering celebration of diversity at Blacktown Arts, a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce and the National Gallery of Victoria’s curator of Indigenous art, new works by Yukultji Napangati at Utopia Arts, and much more.
The Institute of Modern Art’s Making Art Work initiative is a new commissioning program designed to support Queensland artists during the pandemic-induced economic upheaval.
In his third session On the Couch, Andrew Frost admires the survival strategies of artists in the face of both actual catastrophes and crippling ennui.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our online editor Tracey Clement recommends online art highlights including QAGOMA’s Reconciliation Week collation of Indigenous stories, Jumaadi’s Together in Art Kids program with the AGNSW, Catherine Bell’s silent film The Artists, Craft Victoria’s virtual exhibition The Meaning of Things, and much more.
Endlessly inventive, the work of Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Scotty So spans photography, painting, video work, and drag performance. With a dual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, So talks about pageantry, begonias and queens.
Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce has earned critical acclaim for her research in nuclear testing and its ongoing impact on First Nations communities. With a survey at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Scarce speaks to her blown glass forms.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, drawn from the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, brings the Belle Èpoque era to life through impressionist paintings and antique ephemera. View, in pictures, a slice of Parisian history.
Mai Nguyễn-Long’s latest exhibition at Wollongong Art Gallery takes influence from her Vietnamese heritage and living in a modern Australian setting—speaking to the trauma experienced by the diaspora.
Known for her beguiling, stained canvases, and her evocation of matrilineal Indigenous histories, Waanyi artist Judy Watson is now embarking on a 40-year survey at the Queensland Art Gallery.
With scores of artists in the current 24th Biennale of Sydney, we look at nine artists from around the world participating in the event, from a Japanese queer icon to a Polish film director, to creations of Māori barkcloth to Indian tattoos.
