Joanna Chew wins the 2023 Glover Prize
The 2023 Glover Prize has been announced, with Tasmanian-based artist Joanna Chew taking home the $75,000 prize for her painting Tender.
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The 2023 Glover Prize has been announced, with Tasmanian-based artist Joanna Chew taking home the $75,000 prize for her painting Tender.
Congratulations to Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins, who has won the 2023 La Prairie Art Award for a series of poignant portraits representing three generations of her family members.
Darwin-based artist Dawn Beasley uses nature as a reference point for her ceramic sculptures. The third instalment in her series, Botanically Porcelain, is coming to the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art.
The night sky tells many stories. For Indigenous Australians, it is also a symbol of sovereignty. Taking over the entirety of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Black Sky asserts this sovereign vision.
From sustainability to non-living participants to waterways, this year’s 23rd Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of nature through 89 participants and over 330 artworks. Ahead of the opening this Saturday, we talked to artistic director José Roca and curatorial member Anna Davis, about the ideas and processes behind the Biennale.
For hundreds of years, artists have captured—and even been obsessed with—faces. Spanning over a century and more than 50 artists, 100 Faces at Monash Gallery of Art reveals the diversity of photographic portraiture.
This year’s Sculpture by the Sea—an annual seaside sculpture show in Western Australia—asks the central questions of existence with an exquisite light sculpture by Takeshi Tanabe, travelling three kilometres into the night sky. Plus, the winner of the $60,000 Sculpture by the Sea Acquisitive Award has been revealed.
The artistic exchanges between the Philippines and Australia is not only about art, but also “serves as an argument for cultural policy that sparks a new kind of dynamism”. Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith follows this idea, showing at Queensland Art Gallery.
“You can’t overestimate watching films in Yolŋu language about you, your culture, your language and your life. It is epic.” Based in North East Arnhem Land, The Mulka Project is centred on sustaining Yolŋu cultural knowledge—and now their exquisite 60-metre projection will grace the National Gallery of Australia.
The male gaze has infiltrated art history—and life in general. Now, seven women artists at MARS Gallery are centring their own perspective in A Female Gaze.
The South African-born, Stockholm-based artist has been travelling the world recording the prayers of various faith groups and exhibiting the results—now it’s the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s turn.
Andy Butler, Lisa Hilli and James Nguyen each engage the power dynamics that shape public culture. Their works are informed by personal histories of migration from Southeast Asia, and they have a mutual crossover of experience—being one generation away from the village, they now navigate spaces founded on exclusion and prestige. They speak to this in their incredibly insightful three-way conversation.
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.
Peter Hill interviews Simryn Gill about the exhibition Stolon Press: Flat earth at Monash University Museum of Art.
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.
Mungari, a landmark exhibition at Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, marks the return of the Gweagal spears to their ancestral country while speaking to the constellation of relationships that knit together people, objects and place.
