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Ten and Twenty
White Rabbit Gallery has pulled off a neat trick. As the Sydney-based institution celebrates its 10th anniversary, it manages to feel both venerable and fresh.
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Psychological Landscapes
Arthur Boyd’s landscapes not only ruminate on the Australian bush but provide a rich canvas for human emotion to dwell.
Tracey Clement
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Art in the Public Eye
Kaldor Public Art Projects marks a half-century of civic-minded, boundary defying art.
Barnaby Smith
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Analogous Objects
Adelaide artist Louise Haselton creates sculptures using unexpected materials that land in carefully orchestrated balance.
Zara Sigglekow
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Retracing a Tense Past
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Tiarney Miekus
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Not a Still Life
The Margaret Olley survey show at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) is subtitled A Generous Life, but it could just as easily have been called Margaret Olley: Rebel.
Tracey Clement
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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.
Briony Downes
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Queer abstraction in …(illegible)…
First-time curator Andrew Atchison focuses an inquiry into queer abstraction, challenging how we comprehend and view queer art.
Barnaby Smith
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Virtual Reality: Undoing the Colonial Gaze, and Endless Peripheral Vision
Steve Dow looks at a number of artists who see VR as loaded with both hope and fear.
Steve Dow
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Online portal preserves Ngaanyatjarra culture
Sydney University has launched a portal about the remote Ngaanyatjarra world, created in consultation with the community, its contents approved by elders.
Steve Dow
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The Botanical: Beauty and Peril
Unearthing relationships between the depictions of Western Australian flora and the state’s Indigenous, colonial and future legacy.
Briony Downes
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On Vulnerability and Doubt
Works by Australian and international artists suggest that doubt and vulnerability, though long perceived as weaknesses, can make room for desire and transformation.