From his alter ego Blak Metal to exhibiting the figure of a saddened black air dancer, Steven Rhall is embarking on a new artwork: renaming Wi-Fi networks to ABORIGINAL LAND, which will be showing as part of ACCA’s vast summer exhibition Who’s Afraid of Public Space?
Trained as a milliner, Chanel rebelliously shunned the restrictive corsets and frills of the Belle Époque and Edwardian fashion in favour of garments focused on comfort, function and style. Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto at the National Gallery of Victoria marks the first time a major retrospective of the designer’s work has been seen in Australia.
With textiles as her medium, Hannah Gartside engages with the histories and textures of material—and is creating new work for MCA’s Primavera, centred on five powerful women.
To reflect the migratory flows in the Albury/Wodonga region, SIMMER brings together artists and local Albury residents and chefs to consider how food connects us to culture and each other.
The new paintings of Jerzy Michalski, rich in colour, are also an exercise in social commentary, with an urgent critique of digital culture and social media—as reflected in the exhibition Facades at Colville Gallery.
Madeline Pfull’s portraits depict women in a range of settings. They are a peculiarly evocative experience for anyone with strong memories of the 1980s and early 1990s—the decor, the fashion, the colours, the stylised ambience.
After experiencing months of life in lockdown, the famous still life paintings of Henri Matisse—now showing in Sydney—take on an atmosphere that’s equally charged, cataclysmic, and very still.
Compelled by Greek mythology, Heather B. Swann is reinterpreting the story of Leda and the Swan—and the story’s violence—through female strength, power and mystery. Obsessed with myths, museums and haberdashery, Swann is entwining these for a new show at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is reopening with a new $50m building, and a new identity. With eight exhibitions lined up, alongside unveiling its ceramic workshop, outdoor amphitheatre and tourist centre, its aiming to be a community hub as much as a gallery.
From climate change to war to gender, this year’s Head On Photo Festival is dedicated to some of the most pressing environmental and political issues of the moment. And this time, the ten-day Sydney event is taking place outdoors for all to see.
Since the 1970s Margaret Dodd’s ceramic holden cars, which are pioneering feminist artworks, have forged pressing questions on femininity, masculinity, sexuality, capitalism and identity.
Bringing together animation, painting, self-made footage and found images, Thao Nguyen Phan’s Becoming Alluvium is a mesmerising mixture of narratives.
NAP Contemporary’s group show, The Elephant Table, platforms six artists and voices—creating chaos, connection and conversation.
Key artworks from the East Kimberley Art Movement have been restored and are on display in Ride on, shine on at the South Australian Museum.
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.
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
Mundamurra Ngijinda Dulk—My Island Home at Cairns Art Gallery, is a landmark exhibition dedicated to the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, one of the most singular voices in Australian contemporary painting.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
