From cartoon characters to fetishistic obsessions and aqua blue swimming pools, Rob McLeish channels online imagery into a suite of intense drawings in his solo show Distortions at Neon Parc – Brunswick.
From individuals to collectives, female philanthropy is a major driving force in the Australian arts. But who are these women? And why don’t we know more about them?
The 2021 Australia Council Awards honoured Vivienne Binns OAM for her outstanding commitment to Visual Arts, Cat Jones for her contribution to Emerging and Experimental Arts, and Marianne Wobcke received the Australia Council Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery has reopened with a new exhibition centred on an elemental force: light.
“I do something every day, even if it’s only a scribble. But of course I still have doubts. There is no certainty in this game. There are no rules.”
In her newest work, Angela Tiatia uses the myth of narcissus to hold a mirror to how we live today.
With the first participants announced, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is centred on rīvus, a Latin word which can be translated as ‘stream’.
Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.
In This Brittle Light, at Buxton Contemporary, six Light Source Commissions, which began as online works during the pandemic, transition into the gallery space and underline why art matters, no matter where you see it.
Fiona Hall is a seasoned storyteller. In her installations EXODUST at AGNSW and Who goes here? at Hyde Park Barracks, she use the language of art – both subtle and bold – to step in where words fail.
Mapping data from conflict zones and disaster areas, Stanislava Pinchuk (also known as Miso) creates art that reflects upon trauma, memory and landscape.
Ruth Burgess filters the work of a 17th century astronomer and her own youthful career as an experimental composer through a decades-long printmaking practice in her latest solo show, The Music of the Planets at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
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.
Campbelltown Arts Centre’s in every room presents rich socio-political histories and personal storytelling, with works by Lara Chamas, Jagath Dheerasekara, Kuba Dorabialski, Roberta Joy Rich, Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Curtis Taylor.
Arwin Hidayat’s TERNYATA AKU MASIH BERBAHAS (It Turns Out I’m Still Breathing) at Mitchell Fine Art, presents a lifetime of visual storytelling, experimentation and curiosity.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
