Fiona Abicare works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context.
Undercurrent seeks to broaden how we acknowledge the Frontier Wars and massacre sites which scar country.
Virtual reality and art are not often paired together, but last year Sydney-based artist Joan Ross took the plunge in this still-developing medium after being awarded the second Mordant Family VR Commission.
Ruth Cummins is interested in the symbolism attached to methods of domestic improvement.
Three decades after Ana Mendieta’s death, Connecting to the Earth brings the Cuban artist’s work to Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA), exploring what close communion with nature could look like in contemporary Australia.
Showing in Adelaide, Roger Ballen’s works have caught the world’s attention with their apocalyptic, disturbing and dreamlike air.
Adelaide//International finds artists raising the question of who holds the power of narration in a series of four solo exhibitions.
What happens after technologies emerge, after the devices have been built, and we’ve altered the conditions we live in? This question connects the diverse works in After Technology.
Hoda Afshar trains her lens into dark, forbidden corners of the globe, undermining the structural power of the medium.
Jahnne Pasco-White’s paintings have always had a sculptural element to them; she experiments with the layers and folds of loose canvases, which she plasters with wax, resin and found materials.
This year women have won all three awards in the National Photographic Portrait Prize including the top prize, the Highly Commended award and the Art Handlers’ Award.
On the ground in Washington DC, Australian artist Georgia Saxelby is rallying for participation in both art and feminist discourse.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Whether beloved pets or superstitious omens, animals have always existed in art. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia’s latest exhibition is paying tribute to two of the most beloved animal figures: cats and dogs.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
