Robyn Stacey on new still lifes and old collections
As still as life celebrates the work of photographer Robyn Stacey, whose arrangements of museum holdings reconstitute the obsessions and occupations of historical collectors.
As still as life celebrates the work of photographer Robyn Stacey, whose arrangements of museum holdings reconstitute the obsessions and occupations of historical collectors.
Tracey Clement spoke to the Melbourne-based painter about his ongoing environmental concerns, Spanish heritage and his instinct to turn to imaginary creatures for inspiration during lockdown.
Good news for Melbourne with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) announcing today that the NGV Triennial is due to open on 19 December.
Curated by the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, the Mass Isolation project asks viewers in Australia, and most pertinently, at least right now, in Melbourne, to share their photographs of self-isolation with the tags #massisolation and #massisolationAUS.
In a time of isolation, designers collaborate on objects for a better collective future.
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.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
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.
NAP Contemporary’s group show, The Elephant Table, platforms six artists and voices—creating chaos, connection and conversation.
Rigg Design Prize has announced its winner for 2025, in a celebration of early and established designers, the innovative works are on display at The Ian Potter Centre.
