As part of Melbourne Design Week, this year’s four-day Melbourne Design Fair (from 18-21 May) features over 150 designers, centring women and Indigenous creators, and how “the design and making of the things we use in our everyday lives influences the way we think, feel and behave.”
For almost two decades Melbourne artist Alan Constable has created ceramic cameras, defined by their tactility. With both his artwork and portrait currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery, what’s the story behind these beloved creations?
Four major Sydney venues are currently exhibiting some of the most poignant and compelling works in Australia today. Five exhibiting artists—Amanda Williams, Diena Georgetti, Elizabeth Day, Heather B. Swann and Lynda Draper—tell us about the work they’re showing.
Julia Gutman’s Archibald-winning portrait of the singer Montaigne and Zaachariaha Fielding’s winning entry, Inma, in the Wynne Prize have more in common than their youth – although it is worth noting they both represent a new generation of artists, a changing of the guard at the Art Gallery of NSW’s annual series of art prizes.
Irish language and contemporary gaming aren’t seemingly compatible subjects—but they find a meeting point in Clare Milledge’s symbolic paintings at STATION Gallery Sydney.
A new documentary from Larissa Behrendt, You Can Go Now, highlights the life, work and activism of Richard Bell: a self-described “activist masquerading as an artist”.
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.
