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Festivals put craft on the horizon
Combining ancient technologies with digital platforms, craft festivals stitch and solder new connections across oceans and online.
Sheridan Hart
Archive
Combining ancient technologies with digital platforms, craft festivals stitch and solder new connections across oceans and online.
Whether placing an artwork in his stomach, actualising a body with a third hand, giving his agency over to performance viewers, and rather famously growing an extra ear on his arm, Stelarc has gone to true extremes.
What if we had arts news like we have sports news? A new online, artist-led petition is asking for just this, and it’s already gathered thousands of signatures from high-profile artists.
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer keeps busy both painting and walking.
Kunmanara Carroll has been honoured as the first Indigenous artist in JamFactory’s ICON series. Sadly, his exhibition Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki had only been open for a short time when he passed away. He is now referred to as Kunmanara Carroll out of respect.
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, photographer William Broadhurst focuses on how his camera keeps him connected to his suburban neighbourhood.
With multiple Australian cities now in lockdown, and density limits still at play in other cities, we’ve curated a refined shortlist of online virtual galleries, videos and podcasts you can view, watch and listen to from the comfort of home.
With myriad references to museum curios, colonial landowners, and lashings of highlighter yellow, Joan Ross’s aesthetic is instantly recognisable. The Sydney-based artist, whose exhibition ‘Land of the Broken Hearted’ is currently on display at Bett Gallery Hobart, shares the stories behind five of her recent works.
In Hapyhazard, online at Flinders Lane Gallery, Michael Gromm performs a lyrical dance between figuration and abstraction.
Curator Lee Kinsella discusses mining the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for works that embody a kind of transformative material alchemy.
From drawing with fossil fuel by-products, to creating art from historical botanical books, Caroline Rothwell looks at the increasingly complex relationship between humans and nature.
In her Smartphone Snaps photo essay, Karen Back offers an intimate glimpse of her locked-down life and the local colour that keeps her smiling.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
Shirley Purdie’s newest paintings at Olsen Gallery are ancestral stories of Country and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming), but also sites and moments that resonate with Purdie, from her birthplace of Mabel Downs Station to her family history.
“It starts with Elizabethan and Tudor period portraits and goes right through to contemporary times.” The National Portrait Gallery in London has loaned 80 works to our National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, capturing portraiture through the ages.
Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.
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