Suggested Reading
Ramsay Art Prize: 22 of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists
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 and central moment in their careers.
Walter Marsh
Danie Mellor makes the unseen, visible
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). The title reflects his latest work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation and the artist’s own 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
Wedgwood celebrates the ornate alongside the practical
An exhibition at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery pays tribute to Staffordshire-born Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) and his eponymous pottery company, featuring rare, valuable and ornate pieces, as well as “grandma’s good china”.
Barnaby Smith
What the bones know
Blak In-Justice, now showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art, challenges the brutal systems that shape Indigenous incarceration in Australia—while charting the healing power of ancestral knowledge in the process.
Maya Hodge
Monica Rani Rudhar on (be)longing
Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.