Suggested Reading
The Ramsay Art Prize takes the temperature of contemporary art
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
Walter Marsh
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.
Barnaby Smith
Cartographies of the heart
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
Tahmina Maskinyar
Lindy Lee is keeping faith
With a 50-year practice exploring her Chinese heritage, longing and belonging, Zen spiritualism and the endless nature of being, Lindy Lee is now unveiling the pinnacle of her art.
Tiarney Miekus
A soft touch
An exhibition of the work of seven women artists at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales explores themes of tenderness and care through the rich possibilities of paint.
Emma-Kate Wilson
Max Mueller paints propulsively
Hobart-based Max Mueller’s In the Sticks exhibition at Handmark Gallery features oil-on-linen works that show tranquil scenes of Tasmania, musing on how nature is managed and maintained in a context of civilisation and curation.