Confined 13 shows how art can change lives. With 400 works created by First Nations artists either currently in or recently released from Victorian prisons, the exhibition is a tribute to how artistic expression strengthens a person’s connection to their story and culture, while giving further artistic possibilities.
SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022 is both a celebration of the journal of the same name, but also an exhibition that shows the breadth of 22 makers and artists in this field. Across four years it will tour to every state and territory.
Known as one of Australia’s preeminent art collecting couples, South African emigres Gene and Brian Sherman’s private art collection “bears testament to our life and love as a couple”. Having collected over 900 pieces by artists including Janet Laurence and Ai Weiwei, Gene explains why some of this collection is going to auction—but amidst this is an even bigger conversation on art itself, migration, asylum seekers and posterity.
Ballarat-born now London-based artist David Noonan has a major new Australian exhibition Only when it’s cloudless at TarraWarra Museum of Art—and it’s inspired by defining moments of mise-en-scéne.
Painting since 2018, Carbiene McDonald Tjangala has already held three solo shows and won the 2019 Hadley’s Art Prize for landscape painting. His latest show at RAFT artspace in Alice Springs exhibits his paintings of Tjangala (Dreaming).
Mexican artist Tania Candiani is bringing her large-scale installations to Sydney, in a startlingly poetic work reflecting the flows of waterways, sound, language, migration and eco systems.
The acclaimed UK duo Ackroyd & Harvey are two of the most innovative artists working in environmental art today—and for the current Biennale of Sydney, they’ve bought their grass works to our shores, advocating for a sustainable future.
The pandemic has been a wake-up call. Now, more than ever, the arts are a part of our daily lives. They are not something only “the elite” enjoy; they are an expression of the human condition.
From Melbourne to Brisbane to Newcastle to Sydney to Mildura, here’s six new galleries with six new and compelling exhibitions.
Disinformation, algorithms, big data, care work, climate change, cultural knowledge: they can all be invisible.
In a world defined by speed and acceleration Radical Slowness at The Lock-Up explores slowness through art and thought.
Central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is a focus on collectives coming together. We look at the stories and art behind three Indigenous collectives in rīvus: Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre and Casino Wake Up Time from Australia, and New Zealand’s Mata Aho Collective.
