“He was a poet of the Australian landscape, a storyteller of our country and a lyricist of humanity.” A stalwart of Australian art, the passing of painter John Olsen has seen flowing tributes.
The late Carla Zampatti is celebrated in a splendid retrospective Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum.
“I think the artist’s role can be to create these different relationships between people who don’t normally feel they can talk to each other,” says Eugenia Lim, an artist in Okkoota. Meaning gathering, assembly or alliance, Okkoota finds a sense of community in disparate histories at Melbourne’s Arts House.
With young creators showing their final high school art across the country, we spoke to potential artists about everything from climate change to diversity to career viability in the arts. And we learnt that for many, it’s less about art as a career, and more about incorporating creativity into whatever they do.
Next month’s budget will provide $535.3 million extra over four years for nine major cultural and historical institutions.
Known for his photographic explorations of history, culture, and family, Michael Cook’s latest images showing at Jan Murphy Gallery tell the story of a travelling family—and how they begin to question everything around them.
Melbourne Now has arrived. Featuring over 200 Victorian artists, it’s a staggering, landmark celebration of local art at NGV Australia. Ahead of the show’s opening, we asked five artists to talk through their exhibiting work.
This year’s Sculpture by the Sea—an annual seaside sculpture show in Western Australia—asks the central questions of existence with an exquisite light sculpture by Takeshi Tanabe, travelling three kilometres into the night sky. Plus, the winner of the $60,000 Sculpture by the Sea Acquisitive Award has been revealed.
“You can’t overestimate watching films in Yolŋu language about you, your culture, your language and your life. It is epic.” Based in North East Arnhem Land, The Mulka Project is centred on sustaining Yolŋu cultural knowledge—and now their exquisite 60-metre projection will grace the National Gallery of Australia.
The male gaze has infiltrated art history—and life in general. Now, seven women artists at MARS Gallery are centring their own perspective in A Female Gaze.
Artist-run and experimental spaces are central to Australian art. While scores of such spaces exist throughout Australian art history, we asked five artists—Bonita Ely, David Chesworth, Diego Ramirez, Kenny Pittock and Michael Lindeman—to tell us about their early works in experimental spaces, and how these formative experiences became pivotal to their practices.
From a ‘Eulogy for the Dyke Bar’ to ‘Queering the Collection’, there’s a dazzling, poignant array of major Sydney WorldPride exhibitions opening this February, all across the city.
