Suggested Reading
Written in the stars
A major exhibition charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time. In collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre,Yolŋu Power: the art of Yirrkala is now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Tyson Frigo
Creativity beyond mortality
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Shadow and light
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Rosamund Brennan
Flying high at the TarraWarra Biennial
Taking an expanded approach to Indigenous curatorial practice, the ninth TarraWarra Biennial features work responding to themes of regeneration, restoring spirit, and disrupting colonial space. Three artists discuss their contributions.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Sensory perceptions
Inspired by the ways in which nature informs creativity, the exhibition Material Nature, now showing at Drill Hall Gallery, aims to encourage viewers to think deeply about the human connection to the natural world.
Briony Downes
Danie Mellor contemplates history and memory
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.