Both Artspace, in the Gunnery building in Woolloomooloo, and the 19th and 20th-century AGNSW buildings will be undergoing renovation in 2021.
After 46 years, the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) will cease operating in its current form on 16 December, after which its Darlinghurst gallery and headquarters will be closed to the public.
Artistic responses to bushfire carry a certain burden of responsibility.
Brenda May is about to shut the doors on her MAY SPACE gallery in Sydney, but she is most definitely not closing up shop.
Meredith Turnbull has been creating digital works that look at the idea of ‘excess’.
Miles Hall’s recent paintings evoke romance through their depth of surface and fairy tale inspirations.
Overlapping Magisteria is the name of the 2020 Macfarlane Commissions on show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
“A big part of art is sharing it with others. Painting is only art while someone is looking at it; that is already a collaboration between the artist and the audience.”
Weapons for the Soldier brings together 41 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on warfare and the inherent drive to protect Country, family and culture.
For three decades Lisa Roet has used drawing and sculpture to highlight the similarities between humans and apes—close relations with whom we share 98% of our DNA.
From Marlon Brando’s Triumph Thunderbird 6T in ‘The Wild One’ to the Harley-Davidsons of ‘Easy Rider’, motorcycles have, over the decades, given art and entertainment some pivotal, iconic moments.
As part of a bumper Budget announcement yesterday, the Victorian government confirmed their commitment to fund the construction of Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, NGV Contemporary.
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.
The central life-giving gesture of the breath is at the core of Max Athans’ first institutional solo exhibition. Their series of sculptures, collectively titled Breathform, take air into latex ‘lungs’ which create a whistle in the exhale, a deep breathy sound that echoes eerily through the galleries.
Over 70 fabulous garments of exquisite craftsmanship – some made of silk with gold and silver embroidery and dazzling designs – have been assembled within a context of over 150 paintings, posters, wood block prints, magazines and decorative arts. Although many of the items have never been previously exhibited in Australia, most are now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, with many specifically acquired for this exhibition.
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.
