A highly respected cultural and arts leader, Pitjantjatjara woman Sally Scales began painting only a few years ago—and the results are beguiling, leading to Scales being a current NATSIAA finalist at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
“People are interested in what I want to say, and how I want to say it,” says Bruno Booth, who makes art that challenges the ableist world—but he’d rather you call him a ‘con artist’ than a contemporary artist. He’s also a current finalist in the 2022 John Stringer Prize at John Curtin Gallery.
For the past ten months, I have photographed hundreds of people in the Western Sydney suburb of Parramatta for a portrait project called Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook.
What does it mean to be a craft practitioner in 2022? Four younger and emerging artists—Zaiba Khan, Anna Varendorff, James Lemon and Claudia Lau—speak about their craft practices, their inclusion in Craft Contemporary 2022, and the challenges facing young creatives—from skills to money to risk-taking.
Kendal Murray’s miniature sculptures are a fascinating combination of materials including repurposed domestic objects ranging from crockery and compact mirrors to children’s toys. For Murray, these items become the foundation for her to create new worlds. Murray’s captivating and inventive works are now showing at Flinders Lane Gallery.
“Even now, after doing it for 40 years, it’s an adventure and it’s terrifying,” says Cressida Campbell of her practice combining painting and printmaking techniques. Now, she has a major survey at the National Gallery of Australia.
In 1847, ten South Sea Islander men were seen walking down Sydney Road in Melbourne—but who are these men? Aboriginal, South Sea and Pacific Islander artists are making this hidden history known at Counihan Gallery, revealing its impact today.
“What is the dream in terms of what I can create?” asks Hannah Brontë. An artist and DJ, Brontë is using art to imagine a freer society with the spirit of true collectivity, with a new solo show at UTS Gallery.
Since 1770, the British Spode brand has famously popularised the blue-and-white Chinese Willow pattern. A design routinely found on dinner tables, artists at Fremantle Arts Centre are reclaiming this globalised ‘misinterpretation’ to show its colonial logic.
In late 2021 Melbourne artist Damiano Bertoli died unexpectedly. He was 52. An artist who worked across many forms, Bertoli was deeply embedded in the Melbourne arts community. For Bertoli’s retrospective at Neon Parc, we asked artists Darcey Bella Arnold and Yanni Florence, writer Amelia Winata, and Neon Parc director Geoff Newton, to each reflect on one of Bertoli’s works.
D and Kate Harding are descendants of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, and have strong continuous connections to the internationally significant heritage site of Carnarvon Gorge in central Queensland.
