The Indigenous artist took out the annual $100,000 prize for landscape painting with his densely layered canvas titled Four Dreamings.
“I am most interested in working collaboratively and closely with artists to develop their ideas and to give them a platform to experiment and create new works or new experiences through their work.” – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Curator Anna Davis.
Delving into the archives at State Library of Victoria, Höflich will research magical practices as ways of measuring and predicting, in response to a culture shaped by digital algorithms.
Colour is simultaneously the most apparent and most complex part of Gemma Smith’s practice. The artist, who has a penchant for abstraction, creates paintings that capture dialogues and interactions between colours.
First-time curator Andrew Atchison focuses an inquiry into queer abstraction, challenging how we comprehend and view queer art.
Steve Dow looks at a number of artists who see VR as loaded with both hope and fear.
Floyd translates politics and philosophy through a cast of anthropomorphic sculptures.
The influence of music, particularly classical, jazz and instrumental music, flows through Bakker’s solo show Resonant Forms.
Sydney University has launched a portal about the remote Ngaanyatjarra world, created in consultation with the community, its contents approved by elders.
JamFactory curator Caitlin Eyre explores the Barossa region’s long-standing connection to Germany in Kinder, Küche, Kirche: Revisiting the Traditions of Barossan Women’s Folk Crafts.
Al Munro’s latest exhibition experiments with translating the content of paintings back into textiles.
The Housing Question—an expansive show by artists Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys—examines the multiple public and private dimensions of housing.
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.
Ahead of his major retrospective at Jan Murphy Gallery, Ben Quilty spoke with fellow painter Georgia Spain about wrestling with mythology, the contradictions of joy and suffering, and a belief in art as an antidote to an increasingly volatile world.
Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.
The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the next instalment of the Winter Masterpieces series, coming in June 2025, will be a return to French Impressionism—an exhibition from 2021 that closed as soon as it opened due to the global pandemic.
