The Watters Gift
Suggested Reading

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

To Restore and Endure
Under principles of stabilisation and minimal intervention and guided by museum custodians, key artworks from the East Kimberley Art Movement have been restored and displayed in Ride on, shine on at the South Australian Museum.
Steve Dow

How to Revise an Art Prize
By reducing barriers to entry, a Western Australian art prize fosters a freer approach to artmaking—and invites more experimental practices to take centre stage.
Josephine Mead

Looking Forward, Looking Back with Lisa Reihana
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
Steve Dow

Material curiosities: Primavera 2025
In its 34th year, Primavera—the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual survey of Australian artists 35 and under—might be about to age out of itself, but with age it seems, comes wisdom and perspective.
Jo Higgins

Georgie Mattingley’s Creative Intelligence Operation
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Josephine Mead
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