From cute to uncanny, absurd to naughty, Matthew Harris talks about camp aesthetics, growing up in a country town, and his latest show The Simple Life at Galerie pompom.
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
This Icon series exhibition delves into poetic microcosms with a sense of wonder.
In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
One of Australia’s renowned illustrators, Oslo Davis, gives us a glimpse into the motivations, meaning and humour behind a recent collection of drawings.
Tarrawarra translates as ‘slow-moving water’, and the ‘TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters’ embraces slowness amidst an accelerating 21st century.
“We want your blood,” declared Dark Mofo on Saturday. This was not a metaphorical call. This was a literal request of First Nations Peoples by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.
Through the characters Sox and Yow, artist duo Astro Morphs create videos that are equally cosmological and biological.
The evolving collective this mob, founded by Kate ten Buuren, creates a nurturing and deadly space for Blak artists.
Now in its third iteration, The National 2021 is about care, hope, storytelling, and triumph through adversity.
Famous for his slow-motion videos of skateboards, motorbikes, surf boards and BMXs, Shaun Gladwell’s newest art delves into something we’re all familiar with: domesticity and personal exercise.
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.
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.
At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration. A retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the evolution of her practice.
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.
