Cementa19 will feature more than 40 artists making, exhibiting and performing in 20 venues across the town of Kandos, NSW, responding to its landscape, history, social, cultural and environmental context.
This exhibition by Hermannsburg potters looks back to the history of their Country in a way that is strenuously contemporary.
Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson’s prints present densely illustrated stories, spanning traditional knowledge, history and pop culture.
It’s interesting to note that at a time when Western relations with Iran are once again becoming markedly, worryingly strained, Neshat appears to be heading in a broader direction in her work, away from the politically charged direction of her past.
In paintings like Our Rocky Shore, 2019, Neil Haddon blends the soft textures of clouds with contrasting colours, creating a surface crackling with orange hues and the veined branches of trees.
PICA curator Charlotte Hickson and Taiwanese-born guest curator Ashley Yihsin Chang have assembled four artists from each city (Perth and Taipei) for Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth.
Spearheaded in 2017 by Tasmanian ARI (artist run initiative) Constance, Hobiennale is a week-long arts festival uniting ARIs from across Australia and New Zealand via free exhibitions, projects and artists’ talks.
Sydney-based actor and artist Liam Nunan is the winner of the $50,000 Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019, for his portrait of fellow actor Jonny Hawkins.
Anna-Wili Highfield’s art career began outside the gallery system…
Claudia Terstappen is known for her photography, but recently she has started working with ceramics as well.
In the dynamic, imaginative works of Cornelia Parker we face tough questions on democracy, war and authority.
Quilty aligns with a reflective period for the artist, as he considers how to pass on what he has learned to his children.
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.
With a current survey exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.
In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
