Opening Doors
Lesley Dumbrell has been breaking gender barriers in abstract art for over 50 years.
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Lesley Dumbrell has been breaking gender barriers in abstract art for over 50 years.
Sydney Contemporary, in the absence of a physical version of the annual international art fair, is embracing digital possibilities with gusto with a new initiative, Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020, which is open online from 1-31 October.
Ann Debono’s layered paintings ask how time is experienced through historical artefacts and sites.
Vincent Namatjira has won the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture with his painting of footballer Adam Goodes, Stand strong for who you are.
For the first time in its 47-year-long history, the Biennale of Sydney (BOS) is offering a selection of artworks featured in its current exhibition, NIRIN, for sale in an online auction.
For a new wave of contemporary artists, art-making can imagine a future free of oppressive structures—and create a language for building a more inclusive world.
How do you choose who to paint, and why? Three Archibald Prize finalists discuss the people behind their 2020 portraits.
Playful and introspective, portraits from the Northern Beaches reveal a diverse artistic community.
Gangguan Tenggara – Edisi Indonesia is the fourth and final in Bega Valley Regional Gallery’s South/East Interference exhibition series.
Scars are evidence of injury, but they are also a mark of healing, resilience and survival.
Through the character of Sisyphina, Lou Conboy navigates myth, resilience and the craggy Tasmanian coast.
A much-loved educator and mentor, Kate Daw was a quintessential Melbourne art-world figure and a significant artist of her generation.
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.
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
Spring1883, Melbourne’s interactive and immersive fair returns, celebrating the collision of contemporary art installed amongst 18th century decor of The Hotel Windsor.
A survey exhibition spanning the 30-year practice of Jennifer Mills brings together bodies of works grounded in precision and tenderness at Bunjil Place Gallery.
