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.
We wanted to know: is work by women generally valued differently to work by men because it is of a lower artistic quality, or is it just discrimination?
Sydney Contemporary begins today! With a staggering array of galleries, artists and artworks showing (there’s over 450 artists), we’ve asked writer and curator Chloé Wolifson to tell us what you can’t miss from this year’s event, taking place until this Sunday 11 September.
Drawing together 19 artists and collectives, Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art is a celebration of women, people of colour and LGBTIQA+ artists. All share a connection to Queensland.
Archie Moore’s dynamic and rigorous practice immerses audiences into personal and transgenerational memory, challenging the structures of the colonial past and present. A major solo by Moore, the fourth iteration of his series of large-scale architectural installations, is showing at Gertrude Contemporary.
In their pioneering coloured linocut prints, Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) and Eveline Syme (1888-1961) captured the flux and excitement of an era of rapid change. The exhibition Spowers & Syme is now showing at Geelong Gallery.
There’s a meditative, otherworldly quality to Rae Begley’s photographs, which are moving for their depiction of diverse, geological landscapes. View, in pictures, Begley’s On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing now showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
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?
