In Hair Pieces at Heide Museum of Modern Art, hair symbolises the burden of gendered labour—while speaking to how bodies are subject to wider tensions between freedom and control.
The Immigration Museum’s Joy exhibition offers seven Victorian artists a whole room in which to convey what joy means to them. Callum Preston has recreated a nostalgia-soaked video store, straight out of the 90’s.
Two exhibitions at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery are exploring two varying yet interlocked conceptions of time: history as an evolutionary process amid our daily experiences of life.
Sturt Gallery and Studios, the pioneering design centre and school for contemporary craft, has operated in Mittagong since 1941. The space is currently under review to determine its future viability.
A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world?
The lure of ancient Egypt still holds for many, as the National Gallery of Victoria centres its winter exhibition on one figure: the pharaoh.
Sara Oscar’s Counterfactual Departures uses generative AI to create an otherwise non-existent family archive—creating photographs that depict her pregnant mother’s migration from Thailand to Australia in 1974.
In times of scarcity and the Anthropocene, our homes, dwellings and emergency shelters take on a charged, emotive, and fundamental meaning—as Kasia Töns’s textile creations, now at Ararat Gallery TAMA, show us.
The Australian art world is in mourning, having lost two art icons in one week. Following the recent passing of Destiny Deacon is the loss of contemporary photographer Rosemary Laing, one of Australia’s most revered photographic artists.
Festivals can be overwhelming, especially during a cost-of-living crisis. So we’ve curated the ‘must-see-but-on-a-budget’ art events at this year’s RISING—all free or low cost with no bookings required, from Richard Bell’s iconic Embassy tent to Jeremy Deller’s 24 Hour Rock Show to art-filled micro-bars.
Destiny Deacon “was an artist who understood all that matters”, says the writer and poet Tony Birch, one of many friends and fellow creatives attending to their grief over the death of the esteemed multimedia artist last week, at the age of 67.
As the harmony of nature feels increasingly fragile, what happens if your art centres nature itself? We asked five artists—Nici Cumpston, Karla Dickens, Jenna Lee, Janet Laurence and John Wolseley—how it feels to work with nature in these times.
