Tasmanian artist Rosie Hastie exploits the photographic medium like an illusionist. To create her work, Hastie combines skillfully placed lighting with wads of crumpled paper to produce the impression of a fantastical landscape.
“Celebrities are our sun gods and we don’t really need to see them brought down to our level by ill-advised forays into art. I, for one, accept my celebrity overlords but I’d prefer them to stay where they are.”
Digging deep into this most universal of human experiences, LOVE at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum includes a wealth of objects from the Museum Victoria collection, as well as artworks and oral histories collected from the community.
Beyond Reason is an embrace of colour, shape and exuberant imaginings. The full-throttle aesthetic of these paintings, sculptures, ceramics, videos, fashion, and installations is only just contained by the space in the QUT Art Museum.
The latest exhibition at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, combines key moments in Patricia Piccinini’s oeuvre, shown among the all-consuming and devastating emotions in Joy Hester’s works on paper.
Slipping between questions of constructed identity and culture, the agenda proposed by South/East Interference Vol. 2 is a bold and critical one.
The work of the renowned American artist Adrian Piper will be presented alongside Amrita Hepi, a rising star in contemporary Australian performance art.
As urbanised humans are increasingly distanced from the means of food production, the choice of what and how we eat becomes a political act.
Adorn explores how items we put on our bodies are invested with meaning – not only by their creators, but by the people who wear them. The result is a series of stories as varied as the individuals who wear the objects.
Curiouser and Curiouser takes that classic of absurdity and perceptual play, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as its starting point.
“It was blunt but to the point: is the art world full of posers? I had to think about that for a second…”
The truth is often a bitter pill. As Australian history is re-examined, Judy Watson brings her artistic sensitivity and intimate knowledge to it.
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.
Emma Phillips has a knack for catching moments of unbridled humanity. In her latest exhibition at ReadingRoom, she shines a light on the breadth of her practice, amalgamating several projects from the last decade.
Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.
Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.
