European masters: An endless affair
Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?
Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?
Initiated by the JamFactory and touring Australia, CONCRETE brings together 21 projects by artists, architects and designers to explore the conceptual, expressive and material qualities of concrete.
“I guess that is the thread, that I am very open to influences that come into my life, you know, and I respond to them,” says Suzanne Archer in The Long Run, Art Guide’s latest podcast series featuring interviews with artists who have 60-year practices.
From glass eel traps to possum skin cloaks, Maree Clarke uses art to tell stories as well as reclaim and extend cultural practices. Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories is the first major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria by a living artist with ancestral ties to the land on which the gallery stands.
Camille Henrot identifies systems of understanding the world, and turns them inside out.
“Black and white photography has always been my…I suppose it’s just kind of my life,” says Mervyn Bishop on his 60-year photography practice.
In the group show The Other Portrait, at both UTS and SCA galleries, artists/curators Cherine Fahd and Julie Rrap explore the idea that ‘the other’ is always about the self.
Jennifer Keeler-Milne rediscovered her love of oil paint thanks to wattle, leaves, and lockdown. Autumn & Spring, at Australian Galleries in Sydney, is her first solo show of paintings in nearly a decade.
Ruth Höflich’s latest show, To Feed your Oracle at Linden New Art, started with research on magicians, but she prefers cunning and conjuring to magic.
As Mona celebrates its 10th anniversary, the gallery is strengthening its connection with Tasmanian locals and harking back to its beginning: a private art collection.
Linda Brescia chats about her C3West initiative Skirts, deciding in the shower to become a feminist artist, dressing-up as both a nude and a nun, and the desire to make ordinary women visible.
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.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
Offering a “new kind of hope,” Jacobus Capone’s solo show, End & Being, is the inaugural exhibition at the National Centre for Environmental Arts in Halls Gap.
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.
