Channels launches this year on 24 August with a showcase exhibition including artist Reko Rennie from Australia, London-Istanbul pair Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, and Almagul Menlibayeva who is based in Germany and Kazakhstan.
Along with being an independent curator, Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer and artist who continuously looks at the dynamics of power, systemic racism and racial hierarchies within a contemporary art context.
Other Suns is an ode to an idea of the future that has fallen into the past, a fond rear-ward glance at the aesthetics and cultural detritus of an age that was obsessed with, and optimistic about, outer space and frontiers.
Elaine Campaner’s photographs of multilayered dioramas reward intense viewing.
There is a concern for decolonisation, the environment and putting forward Indigenous perspectives, and championing a closer and more caring relationship with nature.
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.
Invisible Threads places emphasis on Kotai’s more recent fabric collages, a technique she happened on by chance in the early 2000s.
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
A jeweller friend remarked to me that if you come across work in a jewellery show and can’t immediately recognise who made it, it is probably by Lisa Walker.
The winner of the 2019 Telstra Art Award is Djambawa Marawili AM with his work Journey to America.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.
