In Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, 22 artists make the most of the constraints and possibilities of wearability and push the limits of body adornment. An Australian Design Centre touring show, Made/Worn opens at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery on 17 July.
Timed to coincide with NAIDOC week (4-11 July), the exhibition WARWAR at Newcastle Art Gallery celebrates the rich history and diverse contemporary art of the Torres Strait Islands.
With multiple Australian cities now in lockdown, there’s plenty of ways to engage with and support artists—from experimental video streaming, virtual galleries, old master documentaries and the best of arts podcasts, this is our curated shortlist.
Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?
Camille Henrot identifies systems of understanding the world, and turns them inside out.
As Mona celebrates its 10th anniversary, the gallery is strengthening its connection with Tasmanian locals and harking back to its beginning: a private art collection.
Sally Rees celebrates the witchy magic of female ageing via the figure of the ‘crone’.
Australian artists with an intellectual disability have for decades been creating important, rigorous and playful art. Historically these artists have been pushed to the periphery—but not any longer.
