Vis-Ability
The term ‘visual art’ tends to preclude further ways of experiencing work but in Vis-Ability, careful research and curation have expanded the scope of ‘seeing’ art.
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The term ‘visual art’ tends to preclude further ways of experiencing work but in Vis-Ability, careful research and curation have expanded the scope of ‘seeing’ art.
Keg de Souza’s wildly colourful installation at Griffith University Art Museum, Common Knowledge and Learning Curves, occupies multiple registers.
Currently showing at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Salient brings together 12 Australian artists who each spent time at the Western Front in 2017.
Melbourne-based curator and art historian Elizabeth Cross is less known for her own work as an artist, but this identification is shifting with the opening of her exhibition, Arborescent, at the Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery.
Through the medium of comic art, StoryGraph offers a portrait of various aspects of Australian life, from policy and governance to small communities and services.
Congratulations to Tamara Dean who has won the $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP) for 2019. Dean’s colour underwater photograph, Endangered, was selected from a pool of 30 finalists.
When Angelica Mesiti debuted her acclaimed 2012 video work Citizen Band at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, then-director Juliana Engberg told her quietly at the opening, “I’m going to take you to Venice.” It took a few years, but Engberg was true to her word.
Colour is an ongoing preoccupation for Lara Merrett, and the paintings for Flip side are steeped in it.
Anita Cummins has won the $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship for recent art school graduates.
“Duchamp is one of the great iconoclasts of the 20th century,” says Nicholas Chambers, coordinating curator of The Essential Duchamp.
Hazara artist Elyas Alavi’s practice is motivated by poetry, the masks a survivor wears and the plight of those left behind.
James Powditch’s new exhibition Codakhrome explores the fragility of memory.
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.
In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.
rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
