A faux Esther Williams gets a Brazilian butt lift in Meat Mirror, a schlock horror collaborative show by Jay Younger and Lisa O’Neill in the 2021 Brisbane Art Design (BAD) festival.
Hairstyling, selfies and making a magazine: how a remote arts organisation keeps young people connected to Country.
In 2019 the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects as part of their Living Treasures series. The exhibition is still touring the nation and has recently arrived at Design Tasmania.
After three decades of playing with colour, Jurek Wybraniec has pared his materials back to ink on paper for a fresh, diaristic exploration of the monochrome.
What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
Dale Harding collaborates for the first time with his mother Kate in Through a Lens of Visitation at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Together they explore their relationship to Country and ponder issues of access.
Centuries-old Persian arts and crafts meet Florence Broadhurst’s swinging sixties wallpapers as Iranzamin, at the Powerhouse (MAAS), tells stories of empire and immigration.
When British designer Mary Quant led a 1960s fashion revolution, she would forever change how women dressed.
Georgia Banks has eligible contestants lining up…for a chance to win exclusive control over the artist’s funeral and remains.
NAP Contemporary’s group show, The Elephant Table, platforms six artists and voices—creating chaos, connection and conversation.
Key artworks from the East Kimberley Art Movement have been restored and are on display in Ride on, shine on at the South Australian Museum.
By reducing barriers to entry, a Western Australian art prize fosters a freer approach to artmaking—and invites more experimental practices to take centre stage.
A search for beauty is behind Skin tight, the first solo exhibition in Australia for the American artist Tschabalala Self, whose works (on view at ACCA) seek to alter the power dynamic between viewer and subject.
In Volle au Fond, Melbourne based artist Yvette Coppersmith incorporates multiple mediums—tapestry, painting, jewellery, film and poetry—to reimagine the myth of Circe, a magical female being brought to life in Homer’s classical text, The Odyssey.
For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.
