Compelled by Greek mythology, Heather B. Swann is reinterpreting the story of Leda and the Swan—and the story’s violence—through female strength, power and mystery. Obsessed with myths, museums and haberdashery, Swann is entwining these for a new show at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is reopening with a new $50m building, and a new identity. With eight exhibitions lined up, alongside unveiling its ceramic workshop, outdoor amphitheatre and tourist centre, its aiming to be a community hub as much as a gallery.
From climate change to war to gender, this year’s Head On Photo Festival is dedicated to some of the most pressing environmental and political issues of the moment. And this time, the ten-day Sydney event is taking place outdoors for all to see.
At a time when it feels more important than ever to support local artists, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is relaunching by celebrating the state’s art, visual language and storytelling with The View From Here.
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’.
