Truth and Beauty
The truth is often a bitter pill. As Australian history is re-examined, Judy Watson brings her artistic sensitivity and intimate knowledge to it.
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The truth is often a bitter pill. As Australian history is re-examined, Judy Watson brings her artistic sensitivity and intimate knowledge to it.
Wegman’s portraits are more than just uncanny curios. He treats each of his subjects with the kind of respect that is typically afforded to a human sitter, and the kind of candour that is only afforded to man’s best friend.
Family and national history are tied up for Phuong Ngo, who has amassed an archive tracing Vietnam’s tumultuous past.
The Asia-Pacific region might be an uncertain construct, but Brisbane’s Asia-Pacific Triennial is about knowing our neighbours and ourselves.
Gothic Beauty at Bendigo Art Gallery shows the enduring lure of the elaborate yet sombre aesthetic, particularly fitting for the Victorian goldrush city.
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr present Biomess where animal oddities, living tissues and mysterious organisms penetrate the science/art divide.
David Goldblatt unblinkingly captured South African history over 70 years, yet his photographs reveal a universality of human experience
The Contiguity of Totalisation is a multimedia exhibition by three queer artists (Tarzan JungleQueen, Matthew van Roden and Koulla Roussos) that is currently showing in Ballarat as part of the 2018 Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA).
Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis present the East in its everyday hues rather than as the fabled other.
Not unlike the vintage photographs he works with, John Stezaker was unearthed after decades of obscurity.
John Nicholson’s latest body of work draws on industrial production, both in its medium and as its muse.
The question was posed to four Melbourne curators, ‘what are you currently excited about in the Melbourne art scene?’
