Suggested Reading
Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair
The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers.
Maya Hodge
Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions
In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.
Steve Dow
Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Josephine Mead
A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables
For Dane Mitchell, Slvalbard—a mysterious archipelago north of the Arctic circle—gives the tensions that shape our ecological moment a new and intriguing form.
Louise Martin-Chew
An enduring friendship
Featuring work by Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Arrernte and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja, Two Girls From Amoonguna is an ACMI touring exhibition now showing at Araluen Arts Centre.
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.