“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.
“Because what is the substance of our lives, except for the things we thought were significant?” From standing on clifftops to attempting to swim the English Channel, for over two decades Todd McMillan has created art on endurance, melancholia and absurdity—and he’s taking this further with new shows at Nicholas Thompson and Penrith Regional Gallery.
A photograph taken in 1995 is an incredible snapshot of talent, featuring seven First Nations artists who are now crucial figures in Australian art, alongside a very newly elected New South Wales premier, Bob Carr. Why was this picture taken? And what can it tell us now? Brenda L Croft reflects.
Looking at Chiharu Shiota’s art paradoxically offers an uncanny awareness of one’s bodily existence alongside the elusiveness of time. To see Shiota’s latest installation and works at Anna Schwartz Gallery is to be awe-struck.
“It’s not the last word in painting at all”: Like a Wheel That Turns at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) doesn’t focus on what painting is—but what painting can do.
Several major art fairs and festivals are upcoming across Australia, from Sydney to Cairns to Darwin to South Australia—some of which are returning for the first time in several years. Whether it’s Indigenous art fairs or exciting showcases of art and performance, here’s our guide on what to see.
Traversing sculpture, painting and sound Afterburner reveals Michelle Ussher’s quest to represent and challenge understandings of femininity—particularly the shapes, expressions and actions that are associated with feminine artistic expression. View, in pictures, Ussher’s vibrant and evocative works at STATION gallery (Sydney).
“You constantly read about the revival of craft and textiles, but they’ve never gone away.” In a vast new exhibition at CAVES, over 50 artists from Australia and New Zealand shed light on the evolving conversations around textiles.
Although Karla Dickens’s home was spared in the recent Lismore floods, she’s attentively focused on the collective community of the town—and she’s also creating new art showing at Sullivan+Strumpf.
