Curator Lee Kinsella talks about the weight and grit of women’s art
Curator Lee Kinsella discusses mining the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for works that embody a kind of transformative material alchemy.
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.
A cast of different ‘Ronnies’ populate Ronnie van Hout’s art, appearing as the wizened face of inanimate objects (a banana, a sausage, a hammer), as well as the adult visage of child-like figures engaged in disconcertingly adult acts. Here, Ronnie tells us about five of his works.
Writer Louise Martin-Chew visited Alair Pambegan at Aurukun in north Queensland, learning first-hand about the artist’s process and connection to Country.
In this interview, while preparing for her retrospective show Finders Keepers at Mundaring Arts Centre, the West Australian artist Nalda Searles talks about her four-decade long textiles-based practice, adapting to the changes life throws in your way, channelling her dark humour, and committing to creativity.
In our latest Smartphone Snaps photo essay, James Powditch turns his pandemic-fuelled anger into art, and walks us through his daily lockdown routine.
The winners of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) have been announced with Western Australian artist Timo Hogan taking out the $50,000 Telstra Art Award with Lake Baker, 2020.
In our ongoing Smartphone Snaps series, artists invite us into their locked-down lives. Here, Kuba Dorabialski takes us on a trip to wildly different destinations, from Bulgaria and Uzbekistan to his own backyard.
In Future U, more than a dozen artists, including Karen Casey, Patricia Piccinini, Stelarc and Bettina von Arnim, playfully, poetically—and sometimes disturbingly—explore how technology might affect our identity as humans, and indeed what constitutes being human.
Joel B. Pratley has won the 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) for his evocative photograph Drought story, capturing a lone farmer walking through the reddened haze of a dust storm, in drought-stricken Australia.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
Rigg Design Prize has announced its winner for 2025, in a celebration of early and established designers, the innovative works are on display at The Ian Potter Centre.
This year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary marks the launch of Photo Sydney, a presentation that brings together the country’s most acclaimed photographers and gives the medium —and its relevance to our cultural moment—the attention it deserves.
