Suggested Reading
Max Mueller paints propulsively
Hobart-based Max Mueller’s In the Sticks exhibition at Handmark Gallery features oil-on-linen works that show tranquil scenes of Tasmania, musing on how nature is managed and maintained in a context of civilisation and curation.
Barnaby Smith
Sensory perceptions
Inspired by the ways in which nature informs creativity, the exhibition Material Nature, now showing at Drill Hall Gallery, aims to encourage viewers to think deeply about the human connection to the natural world.
Briony Downes
Cultural exchange on the international stage
Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940, co-curated by the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, celebrates 50 Australian women artists who travelled to Europe during the early 20th century.
Steve Dow
The 25th Biennale of Sydney announces theme and the first 37 artists and collectives
Curated by artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi, the program is centred by the theme of Rememory. Originating from author Toni Morrison, the ideas seek to explore the intersection of memory and history—revisiting, reconstructing and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed.
Art Guide Australia
Book Preview: Speech Patterns by Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell
As I walk through the suburban streets, I find myself thinking about the publication Speech Patterns: Nadia Hernández & Jon Campbell. It accompanied their two-person exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2022, which explored their shared preoccupations with class, identity and value systems.
Jackson McLaren
Pia Murphy’s natural discoveries
Pia Murphy leans into curiosity for her latest exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Look What I Found is “referring to that experience in childhood of discovering surprising things in nature.” It’s a methodology Murphy uses in her practice, working with the sole intention of honest discovery.