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Time scales
The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.
Barnaby Smith

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities
In a new photography exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba is exploring what it means to be African-Australian, while highlighting the importance of culturally safe spaces for diasporic communities in Australia.
Art Guide Australia

Of art and appetites
Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.
Lee Tran Lam

Nusra Latif Qureshi and the threads of history
The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.
Tahmina Maskinyar

Pure Shores: On the allure of Henry Roy’s Impossible Island
The images of Haitian-French photographer Henry Roy—on display for the first time at the Art Gallery of Western Australia—are a tribute to the landscapes that loom large in our imagination and a beguiling antidote to the brutality of the world.
Michael Sun

Imants Tillers gets metaphysical
In his latest exhibition, now showing at Bett Gallery, Postmodern painter and writer Imants Tillers is influenced by a variety of sources including the metaphysical style of Italian artist Georgio de Chirico.
Steve Dow
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