Words of wisdom in Oracle
Oracle, Brigita Ozolins hopes, may point to a potential future of positive change.
Oracle, Brigita Ozolins hopes, may point to a potential future of positive change.
Inspired by being in lockdown, South Australian gallerist Paul Greenaway initiated an international online project. Sheridan Hart spoke to him, and two of the artists involved, about using art to cross borders and bring comfort.
Piccinini places human and non-human creatures in relationships that are as loving and empathic as they are unnerving.
Billy Missi believed in the power of art to make change.
Porcelain, fur, paraffin wax, silk, resin, glass, bones, fox and rabbit pelt, Tibetan gazelle horns: these are just some of the materials Juz Kitson uses to create her highly tactile, creature-like sculptural forms.
Working with textiles and bronze, Teelah George uses her smartphone to capture her new life in Melbourne.
Through the stark aesthetic of his smartphone images, Lawrence English provides a striking take on life during lockdown.
Our online lives are on steroids at present. Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online is prescient in this regard. Planned as a physical exhibition, it segued onto the internet with the pandemic and social-distancing.
While he firmly established a specific vision for the art he wanted to make, John Nixon always remained an artist who loved to experiment and explore.
Working between Melbourne and Bangkok, Lesley Dumbrell has sent us snaps of home life: creating, gardening and pets.
Danie Mellor’s new online exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, The Sun Also Sets, made up of paintings and large-format photomontages, is a deeply considered meditation on time, culture and the notion of ‘landspace.’
With Friendship as a Way of Life, curators Doley and José da Silva present a celebratory testament to the way that LGBTQI+ artists and communities have imparted space, time and support to one another by building kinship structures.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
A search for beauty is behind Skin tight, the first solo exhibition in Australia for the American artist Tschabalala Self, whose works (on view at ACCA) seek to alter the power dynamic between viewer and subject.
This year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary marks the launch of Photo Sydney, a presentation that brings together the country’s most acclaimed photographers and gives the medium —and its relevance to our cultural moment—the attention it deserves.
