Suggested Reading
Kait James dishes it out
In her major touring solo exhibition Red Flags, currently at Ararat Gallery TAMA, Wadawurrung artist Kait James takes aim at the ongoing commodification of Indigenous culture. She talks to Jane O’Sullivan about kitschy calendar tea towels, souvenir pennants and why she finds it easier to say harsh truths with a little humour.
Jane O'Sullivan
Family Ties
Using the powerful connection between mother and daughter, Generational at Madeline Gordon Gallery in Launceston, explores this intimate relationship with creativity and complexity.
Briony Downes
Shari O’Dwyer Dances with History
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
Gok-Lim Finch
Poetics of Relation
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
Wen Pei Low
Making Space at the Table
NAP Contemporary’s group show, The Elephant Table, platforms six artists and voices—creating chaos, connection and conversation.
Camilla Wagstaff
Yvette Coppersmith’s Flights of Fancy
In Volle au Fond, Melbourne based artist Yvette Coppersmith incorporates multiple mediums—tapestry, painting, jewellery, film and poetry—to reimagine the myth of Circe, a magical female being brought to life in Homer’s classical text, The Odyssey.