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Transience and Immortality
A mass installation and drawings by contemporary Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang encounter the Terracotta Warriors and other ancient treasures.
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Suspended Moment
Three works by Katthy Cavaliere made in Goulburn chronicle the idiosyncrasies of place with the insight of a singular vision.
By Briony Downes
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Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
The use of his own body may be a convenient framework for Christian Thompson, but it also implies an emotional and personal investment that lends his work power and immediacy.
By Rebecca Gallo
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Revealed
Revealed provides fertile ground for emerging Indigenous artists to exchange ideas, showcase diverse practices and sell work.
By Steve Dow
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Vis-Ability
The term ‘visual art’ tends to preclude further ways of experiencing work but in Vis-Ability, careful research and curation have expanded the scope of ‘seeing’ art.
By Sheridan Coleman
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Podcast: Gemma Smith on the persuasion of colour
Colour is simultaneously the most apparent and most complex part of Gemma Smith’s practice. The artist, who has a penchant for abstraction, creates paintings that capture dialogues and interactions between colours.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Ensemble Piece
When Angelica Mesiti debuted her acclaimed 2012 video work Citizen Band at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, then-director Juliana Engberg told her quietly at the opening, “I’m going to take you to Venice.” It took a few years, but Engberg was true to her word.
By Anna Dunnill
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Elyas Alavi: Daydreamer Wolf
Hazara artist Elyas Alavi’s practice is motivated by poetry, the masks a survivor wears and the plight of those left behind.
By Tracey Clement
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Podcast: Arlo Mountford and being out of time
Working across video, animation, sculpture, installation and drawing, Mountford’s practice is permeated by pop culture allusions and art history references from modernism onwards, underpinned by ironic and slapstick humour.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Top Arts and ARTEXPRESS: What young people are thinking
Far from being a clunky display of papier-mâché heads and oil paintings of flowers, the contemporary Year 12 art exhibition incorporates multiple artforms produced with impressive technical skill.
By Briony Downes
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Monstrous Feminine
For The National, Tara Marynowsky has taken to “redirecting” a slew of 1990s film trailers, giving the female protagonists greater agency.
By Anna Dunnill
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Australian Story
Recognised for writing and illustrating Australian children’s classics like The Rainbow Serpent, Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey fostered an understanding of Indigenous culture.