Suggested Reading
Lost in Space: A Conversation with Cao Fei
Luise Guest speaks with internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Cao Fei—whose work is on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales—about why the city is a repository of memory and the power of the places we forget or overlook.
Luise Guest
Tony Clark and the other side of sculpture
For over four decades, Tony Clark’s painting practice has merged a deep appreciation for art history with a desire to push beyond the traditional confines of prescribed mediums. His latest exhibition at Buxton Contemporary focuses on sculpture—or the idea of it.
Sally Gearon
Carol Jerrems’ maternal inheritances
Carol Jerrems’ intimate and revealing portraits of women, now showing at the National Portrait Gallery, are a touchstone for a generation of writers and photographers. For Josephine Mead, they also galvanise the power—and limits—of feminist legacy five decades on.
Josephine Mead
Abstracting time
From Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin to Lindy Lee and Paul Knight, an exhibition at Ipswich Art Gallery uses the expanded field of abstraction to encourage deliberate and slow looking.
Sally Gearon
All that glitters with The Huxleys
Partners in life and art, Will and Garrett Huxley’s sequined wonderland pays homage to their queer artist forebears. Their first collective survey, now showing at Fremantle Arts Centre, unfurls a decade of photography, music recordings, costume, film and performance.
Steve Dow
Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary
Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.