Suggested Reading
About Face
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
Chloé Wolifson
Sally Gabori’s Work Returns Home
Mundamurra Ngijinda Dulk—My Island Home at Cairns Art Gallery, is a landmark exhibition dedicated to the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, one of the most singular voices in Australian contemporary painting.
Shonae Hobson
Farrago 100 years: Protecting Print Publishing
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
Andrew Stephens
Barbara Kruger: THINK OF ME THINKING OF YOU
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
Louise Martin-Chew
Lisa Radford’s Circular Logic
A new exhibition by Melbourne painter Lisa Radford is animated by a deep interest in the way ideas circulate—and the connections between people that unfold over time.
Amelia Winata
Questions from the boulevard
‘North Terrace: worlds in relief’ showing at Samstag Museum of Art, invites viewers to reflect on the complicated legacies of the cultural institutions that line Adelaide’s North Terrace.