Beyond the City, Toward the Continent
From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.
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From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.
Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is weaving its way into her practice.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image will reopen its renovated space in early 2021. But ACMI has already unleashed XOS, the shorthand title for its new internet “experience operating system,” which features artworks and performances curated and created specifically for online, and a new video-on-demand service for arthouse and festival films.
After Victoria’s lengthy lockdown, Anna Schwartz has reopened with not one, but two exhibition spaces in her Melbourne gallery.
Three of the University of Sydney’s significant cultural collections all have a new home within the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Both artists and curators have been announced for The National 2021: New Australian Art, a major collaboration between three of Sydney’s biggest cultural institutions.
Over many months, Olga Cironis has been recording personal stories about love and connection. She talks about working collaboratively with strangers, and the intimate catharsis of speaking one’s experience out loud.
Co-curated by SAM’s Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates, Craftivism features 18 Australian artists who share an affinity for craft-based art with political gestures.
Alex Seton is known for his marble sculptures. These carved stone works often mimic the soft folds of fabric, but they have a hard political edge.
What happens when slogans and catchphrases are treated as instructions? In 2020, a year riddled with new phrases and contradictory messaging, Michelle Hamer has had plenty to work with.
Anywhere but here: MCA Primavera Acquisitions presents a tightly curated selection of works by 13 Primavera alumni, chosen for their ability to comment on our current moment.
Overlooked during her time, the late Pat Larter was a master of wit, theatrics and provocation.
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.
Embodied, the first iteration of Arts Project Australia’s new exhibition series, Limitless, sees artists Bronwyn Hack and Mark Smith create their most ambitious works yet, with the body at the centre of it all.
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.
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.
