Smartphone snaps: Lesley Dumbrell’s life in Bangkok
Working between Melbourne and Bangkok, Lesley Dumbrell has sent us snaps of home life: creating, gardening and pets.
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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.
Curious, mystical, humourous and bittersweet, Willoh S. Weiland uses her smartphone to give us a sense of living and working in Hobart.
Living and working from Mimili in the APY Lands, Robert Fielding, via his smartphone, shows us the beauty of his surrounds.
The theme of the 2020 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair is The Cultural Evolution.
Lightning bolts, textiles painting, Sonic Youth, smiley faces and sculpture: with her smartphone, Nell has captured her life and art making in her Sydney home.
Using her smartphone, Julia Robinson is giving us a look into her life and practice: her textiles, her cat Chewbacca, and where she lives and creates.
Kylie Stillman’s silhouetted carvings of natural forms, such as trees and birds, are built up slowly over days and weeks, hollowed out from stacks of reinforced paper or timber with hand tools, knives and jigsaws.
Hard and soft, volatile and permanent; Teelah George plays with paradoxes in textiles and bronze.
Working from the APY Lands, Robert Fielding blends Indigenous tradition and culture with innovative forms.
Showing serene images of family life on a cattle farm south of Perth, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah captures poignant and fun insights into parenting and creating.
Running for just two weeks across various locations in greater Walyalup, the Fremantle Biennale: Sanctuary, seeks to invite artists and audiences to engage with the built, natural and historic environment of the region.
To mark the presentation of Nan Goldin’s The ballad of sexual dependency at the Bank Art Museum Moree, Jonno Revanche reflects on the power of the landmark photographic series—and the way the work’s visceral portrayal of subjects that have survived the narratives our culture has imposed on them—has endured.
In her major touring solo exhibition Red Flags, currently at Ararat Gallery TAMA, Wadawurrung artist Kait James takes aim at the ongoing commodification of Indigenous culture. She talks to Jane O’Sullivan about kitschy calendar tea towels, souvenir pennants and why she finds it easier to say harsh truths with a little humour.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
to come together as water is the most recent iteration of Blue Assembly—the University of Queensland Art Museum’s multi-year project exploring our relationship to the ocean. Curated by Freja Carmichael, it calls for First Nations sovereignty over waterways.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale was 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. kith and kin is now on display at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until 18 October 2025.
