These seven new (and re-opened) galleries represent compelling beginnings in Australian arts. Across city and regional areas, including Melbourne, Sydney, Bega, Maryborough and Barossa Valley, we’ve curated these recent and upcoming gallery openings to explore.
During his lifetime, Andy Warhol took more than 40,000 Polaroids. These are now showing across Australia, alongside images of Warhol himself, in all their glamour, intimacy, desire and loneliness.
For six months, Catherine Bell and Cathy Staughton undertook a residency with ‘Spot’, a famous robot used everywhere from the policing to construction. Through Dog Robot Space Star at Gertrude Glasshouse, the pair consider the ethical implications of Spot, and what it means to care for robot companions, and each other.
Leisa Shelton has been making performance art for over 30 years, in which she captures viewers’ responses to artists and artworks across the world. Now, five of her major works are showing at Abbotsford Convent.
Green energy is not an uncomplicated, naturally ethical idea—as the new exhibition We Are Electric: Extraction, Extinction and Post-Carbon Futures at UQ Art Museum shows, by merging research and art.
With a poignant blend of traditional culture and contemporary aesthetics that’s seen his printmaking in the 2022 Biennale of Sydney and Tarnanthi Festival, Teho Ropeyarn’s latest work looks at his mother’s story—and is showing for The National.
“He was a poet of the Australian landscape, a storyteller of our country and a lyricist of humanity.” A stalwart of Australian art, the passing of painter John Olsen has seen flowing tributes.
The late Carla Zampatti is celebrated in a splendid retrospective Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum.
“Everybody has their own sense of truth.” The acclaimed photographer Steve McCurry, particularly known for his iconic photograph of an Afghan girl with green eyes which featured on the cover of National Geographic, has been travelling and documenting the world for over 40 years. Ahead of his Sydney retrospective, he talks about his iconic images, photographing people fleeing war, and what truth means today.
“I think the artist’s role can be to create these different relationships between people who don’t normally feel they can talk to each other,” says Eugenia Lim, an artist in Okkoota. Meaning gathering, assembly or alliance, Okkoota finds a sense of community in disparate histories at Melbourne’s Arts House.
With young creators showing their final high school art across the country, we spoke to potential artists about everything from climate change to diversity to career viability in the arts. And we learnt that for many, it’s less about art as a career, and more about incorporating creativity into whatever they do.
Next month’s budget will provide $535.3 million extra over four years for nine major cultural and historical institutions.
