Oslo Davis: Beware the art enabler
Illustrator Oslo Davis questions if you should always listen to that little voice inside your head.
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Illustrator Oslo Davis questions if you should always listen to that little voice inside your head.
Going from a young Batman to mentoring children in cape-making workshops, Dennis Golding’s art is about Indigenous empowerment, and is now showing at Carriageworks, Cement Fondu and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
The vividly colourful flower and landscape paintings of Gwenneth Blitner, showing for Tarnanthi 2021, not only convey connection to Country, but the joy of painting itself.
Lorraine Connelly-Northey’s tough barbed wire sculpture meets the rhythmic assemblage of Rosalie Gascoigne.
Based in the Northern Territory but internationally renowned, the Karrabing Film Collective look at equality issues such as poverty, incarceration and mining on Country, while also weaving traditional stories connected with Country. Now, Karrabing’s films are showing at Samstag Museum of Art.
“I think we’re going to see a revolution in what creativity and culture can be,” says American multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken ahead of his first Australian survey show, New Era.
The new regional gallery Ngununggula—based in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales—is opening with a show by Tamara Dean, considering the existentialism of the pandemic and recent bushfires. Within anxiety and uncertainty, Dean finds depth and lightheartedness.
As Sydney galleries reopen this week, with Canberra and Melbourne not far behind, Australia’s most prominent museum leaders discuss the impacts and opportunities of the pandemic, and how they’re adapting to our new ‘Covid normal’.
Through her painting and ceramics, Neridah Stockley balances the details of place with a bold distillation of colour and form.
Despite being in ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, Hannah Gartside is still creating, giving attention to the tactility, movement and histories of textiles.
Troy-Anthony Baylis uses glomesh and pop music to weave together queerness and Indigeneity.
How have Australia’s commercial galleries been faring through the last two years, and how are they feeling about the future? Mostly, it’s looking quite optimistic.
