In this second edition of Faraway, so close—a podcast dedicated to considering the anxieties and opportunities emerging in the arts in our new COVID-19 world—we’re considering what parenting and creating looks like during isolation with artists Tai Snaith and Ross Coulter.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Tiarney Miekus recommends online art highlights including the Shirley Purdie at the National Portrait Gallery online, KINGS ARI artist updates from lockdown, Xanthe Dobbie’s online exhibition Desktop Holiday at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery website, Firstdraft moves an exhibition into Animal Crossing a life simulation game, and much more.
Tributes have flowed this week following the news that Frank Watters — well known Sydney gallerist — passed away at the age of 86.
NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, will reopen from 16 June, with some venues opening from 1 June 2020.
Over the last three years Art Gallery of South Australia has taken strides to make its exhibitions more inclusive. The gallery has also recently launched a new accessible audio guide.
Amid global upheaval, art is more important than ever. Tracey Clement unpacks this with three artists whose practices respond to crisis.
Inside the singular practice of renowned Yolŋu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu.
“Addressing climate change is a moral imperative … it is going to take a myriad of different approaches to address this crisis.”
Now that we’re all confined to our living spaces, Jenna Pippett and Tanya Lee are taking the shift philosophically at Adelaide Central Gallery.
This week for Your weekly online art list our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Sidney McMahon’s latest exhibition viewable online at the Goulburn Regional Gallery website, virtual art jigsaw puzzles from Bunbury Regional Gallery, Next Wave launching their ASSEMBLE! program, lockdown responsive texts from Contemporary Art Tasmania, and much more.
In Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide takes a peek at what artists have on their bookshelves. In this second iteration, Tracey Clement spoke to Sam Doctor about making sense of a global pandemic through reading and finding some hope in the midst of the crisis.
Examining pivotal movements that shaped Australian art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)’s lecture series ‘Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1969–1999’ is going online.
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.
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
Ahead of her solo exhibition at Niagara Galleries, Vongpoothorn contemplates the ideas sprouted during her residency, and how they have transformed once returned to her Canberra studio.
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.
