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
Flying high at the TarraWarra Biennial
Taking an expanded approach to Indigenous curatorial practice, the ninth TarraWarra Biennial features work responding to themes of regeneration, restoring spirit, and disrupting colonial space. Three artists discuss their contributions.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Tina Stefanou’s class acts
Traversing boundaries of the senses and of class, the work of Tina Stefanou is grounded in community. A solo exhibition at ACCA and a group exhibition at Bundanon showcase her work with unlikely collaborators.
Josephine Mead
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.