In light of COVID-19 shutdowns arts bodies around Australia have announced millions in new funding, programs and resources for artists, arts organisations and arts practitioners.
Revealing truths through rescued kitsch.
Two artists are test the limits and possibilities of going ‘plastic-free’
An exhibition focussed on so well-worn an artistic motif as flowers might, on the face of it, appear to be swimming against the tide of the current zeitgeist.
In The Long Kiss Goodbye, six artists transform old artworks, materials, ideas and images.
Margolles insists that she isn’t an activist. “I am an artist and I use all the limitations of an artist,” she says.
Agnieszka Polska shows how photography has a complicated relationship to ‘truth’.
Photojournalist Barbara McGrady tells the stories behind her renowned images.
Rob Palmer has won the 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) with his colour photo of Sydney-based chef Josh Niland titled The mahi-mahi, 2019.
Sancintya Mohini Simpson unpacks a family history of indentured labour.
“As an Armenian, the concept of exile and genocide is not unfamiliar.”
Through a classical Filipino dance form featuring long metal fingernails, artist Bhenji Ra explores the passing down of cultural knowledge.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.
A Delicate Terrain, a new exhibition of works drawn from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, looks at our relationship with the environment through the lens of contemporary art.
Melbourne Art Fair has announced its 2025 line up, with 60 galleries and Indigenous art centres slated to feature alongside some major international commissions and public programs.
