From Spring1883 to Sydney Contemporary to Darwin Festival, we’ve rounded up an array of festivals and fairs across the rest of 2023—happening in almost every state and territory.
Interviews with artists offer invaluable insights—but exhibiting these is another story. Curator Julie Ewington talks through creating a show at the State Library of Queensland Gallery centred on recorded dialogues with artists from Anne Wallace to Vernon Ah Kee to Fiona Foley.
Since the 1990s, American photographer Catherine Opie has been internationally renowned for capturing friends and family, queer domestic life, and defining political moments. Entwining identity and sexuality, kinship and community, Opie’s first Australian survey is at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Perhaps it’s related to contemporary life, but the spiritual in art feels central at this moment. Now, as part of RISING Festival, the spiritual practices and connections of First Nations artists are taking over a historic Melbourne site.
Victoria’s flagship festival of music, food, art and culture is back, starting 7 June. With 185 events, here’s our recommendations of what to see—from Cate Blanchett as a tiger in a supermarket to First Nations artists connection to the spirit world.
Before Philippa Cullen’s untimely death, the artist, who was prominent in the early 1970s, envisioned “a new medium in which dance is inseparable with technology, music and lighting”. Fifty years later, her work is at McClelland Sculpture Park+ Gallery.
With four decades of propelling dance and choreography into museums and galleries, Shelley Lasica has transformed Australian art. Now, along with seven performers, she’s delivering WHEN I AM NOT THERE at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Sonia Leber and David Chesworth recently travelled through the Northern Territory with a team of earth scientists, under the guidance of local Indigenous leaders—and they recorded and filmed what they saw.
As part of Melbourne Design Week, this year’s four-day Melbourne Design Fair (from 18-21 May) features over 150 designers, centring women and Indigenous creators, and how “the design and making of the things we use in our everyday lives influences the way we think, feel and behave.”
For almost two decades Melbourne artist Alan Constable has created ceramic cameras, defined by their tactility. With both his artwork and portrait currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery, what’s the story behind these beloved creations?
Four major Sydney venues are currently exhibiting some of the most poignant and compelling works in Australia today. Five exhibiting artists—Amanda Williams, Diena Georgetti, Elizabeth Day, Heather B. Swann and Lynda Draper—tell us about the work they’re showing.
Julia Gutman’s Archibald-winning portrait of the singer Montaigne and Zaachariaha Fielding’s winning entry, Inma, in the Wynne Prize have more in common than their youth – although it is worth noting they both represent a new generation of artists, a changing of the guard at the Art Gallery of NSW’s annual series of art prizes.
