Mel O’Callaghan: Centre of the Centre
Suggested Reading
Nicholas Smith and the sensuality of sculpture
Nicholas Smith’s sensuous and bodily sculptures speak to the classical history of the form in an installation that is now on display at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions.
Laura Couttie
Belinda Fox masters the art of collaboration
In her latest exhibition at Arthouse Gallery, Belinda Fox invites friends and artists to contribute by reflecting on their sense of home.
Briony Downes
GAGPROJECTS closes after 32 years
GAGPROJECTS, a mainstay of the Adelaide art scene, has announced that the Kent Town space it has operated out of for 32 years will close at the end of August.
Art Guide Australia
Do we all have status anxiety?
A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world?
Neha Kale
Joy and nostalgia: inside Callum Preston’s Video Land
The Immigration Museum’s Joy exhibition offers seven Victorian artists a whole room in which to convey what joy means to them. Callum Preston has recreated a nostalgia-soaked video store, straight out of the 90’s.
Steve Dow
Lillian O’Neil peers at the stars through the trees
The assemblage of new motherhood, of shifting time and experience, is mirrored in Lillian O’Neil’s poignant artistic assemblages at UNSW Galleries.
Briony Downes
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