Timbre represents Mestitz’s first collection of two-dimensional paintings on board, a departure from the architectural blends of sculpture and painting she has been working with since the late 1990s.
The $344 million Sydney Modern expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has been given State Government planning consent, allowing construction of the new building, designed by Japanese architects SANAA, to begin early next year.
The Asia-Pacific region might be an uncertain construct, but Brisbane’s Asia-Pacific Triennial is about knowing our neighbours and ourselves.
“Their works speak to their particular interests,” says Murphy, “which are indebted to the ancient traditions of a long existing culture, but that also look outside this to Western art.”
Gothic Beauty at Bendigo Art Gallery shows the enduring lure of the elaborate yet sombre aesthetic, particularly fitting for the Victorian goldrush city.
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr present Biomess where animal oddities, living tissues and mysterious organisms penetrate the science/art divide.
A Minang/Noongar man from Western Australia, Christopher Pease creates multi-layered paintings combining traditional Indigenous stories with 19th-century colonial narratives, powerfully subverting images like those produced by Lieutenant Robert Dale and his contemporaries.
Justene Williams was on the road to Sydney when we first spoke ahead of her solo exhibition, Project Dead Empathy, at Sarah Cottier Gallery.
Hugo Michell opened his eponymous gallery in Adelaide at a hazardous time – it was late in 2008, and the GFC was in full effect.
David Goldblatt unblinkingly captured South African history over 70 years, yet his photographs reveal a universality of human experience
Sydney multimedia artist Alex Gawronski and Melbourne-based conceptual art duo Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have been awarded the 2018 fellowships by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).
Congratulations to Denis Beaubois who has been awarded the first Create NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) NSW Visual Arts Mid-Career/Established Fellowship.
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.
In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place.
Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?
An exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane sheds a new light on Brisbane’s history, presenting a significant historical archive of photography alongside contemporary artists responding to the original source material.
