Suggested Reading
Creativity beyond mortality
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Shadow and light
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Rosamund Brennan
Sammy Hawker’s acts of co-creation
Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.
Camilla Wagstaff
Shifting Frames: An evolution of self and place
In an Australian first, the Art Gallery of Western Australia presents Moving Landscape—an exhibition by internationally acclaimed US artist Sam Contis, curated alongside Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson.
Art Guide Australia
Elysha Rei’s windows into history
Elysha Rei’s exhibition Shirozato to Shinju (White Sugar and Pearls) at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville QLD, explores the interconnected histories of the Japanese diaspora in Australia.
Gok-Lim Finch
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.