Michelle Ussher refers to the title of her exhibition Afterburner as “an attitude”. The Australian-born, London-based artist’s latest exhibition is inspired by the boldness and tenacity of the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. Traversing sculpture, painting and sound, Afterburner reveals Ussher’s quest to represent and challenge understandings of femininity—particularly the shapes, expressions and actions that are associated with feminine artistic expression.
Ussher’s interdisciplinary approach in examining representations of women in dominant Western mythologies confronts artistic hierarchies and encourages viewers to challenge, unravel and reinvent what ‘the feminine’ can mean. View, in pictures, Ussher’s vibrant and evocative works at STATION gallery (Sydney).
Afterburner
Michelle Ussher
STATION (Sydney)
18 June—23 July
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.
In her latest exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Janine Combes uses her background as a jewellery maker to create a body of work inspired by abandoned towns once marked for settlement in Tasmania.
