From the Iraq War to natural disasters, since the 1970s acclaimed artist Susan Norrie continues to show us scenes of tragedy and mystery. Now her work is being situated alongside other contemporary female artists at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
In 2009 Megan Cope began a new series of works called After the flood. After recently losing her studio in the Lismore floods, the Quandamooka artist didn’t realise how prescient this title would be—and now she’s showing everywhere from Melbourne to Shepparton to Paris.
From The Fox: NGV Contemporary to the Sydney Modern Project, to major overhauls of regional art spaces, hundreds of millions of dollars are being funnelled into museum buildings. But are these new buildings being privileged over artists, or is this the future investment we need?
The brilliant, blue bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) of Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr have seen growing acclaim for not only their formal qualities, but how they speak of Country and contemporary politics. Munuŋgurr’s latest exhibition is now showing at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Emu Sky invites audiences to reflect on the importance of respecting, resourcing and valuing Indigenous knowledge of Country. This vast exhibition, held at Melbourne University’s Old Quad, showcases work from more than 30 Aboriginal community members across south-eastern Australia. Learn the stories behind four featured artworks.
On June 5 1960, the Darwin paper The Sunday Mirror reported: A tribal painter, said to be more famous than the late Albert Namatjira, has just died at Warrabri welfare settlement, near Tennant Creek. He was Nat Warano, of whose skill few white men had heard.
Retracing Russell Drysdale’s 1944 journey to remote Australia allowed Caroline Zilinsky to confront a male dominated version of the outback. Zilinsky’s new show at Nanda\Hobbs responds to this visual history.
Iluwanti Ken and Betty Muffler are both celebrated senior Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artists and Ngangkari (traditional healers) for community and Country. Together, they join forces for a significant and powerful exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery. View, in pictures, Ken and Muffler’s evocative and illuminating works.
“For me, it’s about wonder and not knowing, and the undoing of trying to solve something,” says Susan Jacobs. The Sydney-born, London-based artist is having her largest show to date at Buxton Contemporary, where romance may be found in the clinical—and detritus becomes precious.
The creation of art is not dissimilar from the creation of worlds: from fantastical responses to personal and collective utopian imaginings, ideas of alternative worlds are being expressed across three innovative exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, State Library of Victoria, and 16Albermarle and Delmar Gallery.
Known for painting startlingly minute moments from cinema, Nicola Smith’s newest works at Sarah Cottier Gallery draw upon a reference closer to home: childrearing and domestic life.
With her parents migrating to Australia in 1984, Adelaide-born artist Allison Chhorn uses film to explore migration, displacement and intergenerational trauma—all with highly empathic affect, as showing at ACE Open.
