
The art of protest
An exhibition at Flinders University Museum of Art is showcasing the iconic posters and prints to come out of the Progressive Art Movement (PAM)—a group of artists activists that started in Adelaide in the 1970’s.
An exhibition at Flinders University Museum of Art is showcasing the iconic posters and prints to come out of the Progressive Art Movement (PAM)—a group of artists activists that started in Adelaide in the 1970’s.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, drawn from the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, brings the Belle Èpoque era to life through impressionist paintings and antique ephemera. View, in pictures, a slice of Parisian history.
An exact 360º replica of the Mona Lisa and the largest existing collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s unedited drawings and writings. View, in pictures, how THE LUME Melbourne brings the work of Leonardo da Vinci to life.
Nan Goldin’s influential photography can now be seen by Victorian audiences with Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency showing at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. View, in pictures, this iconic, intimate 1980s series that shows how photography and social purpose has defined the artist’s 50-year career.
White Rabbit Gallery’s latest multimedia exhibition, A Blueprint for Ruins, explores the ongoing destruction and renewal of urban spaces in modern China, with works from over 20 contemporary Chinese artists.
The new queer photography festival Queer PHOTO takes over Melbourne’s West, featuring the likes of Peter Waples-Crowe, Salote Tawale and Karla Dickens.
George Byrne’s artwork has an otherworldly quality to it, blurring the lines between natural and artificial through photography, collage, and digital manipulation. His latest exhibition, Synethetica, is now showing at Olsen Gallery.
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is exploring the photographic lines of illusion and truth from via international icons—Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gilbert & George and Nan Goldin—to Australian masters like Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, Mervyn Bishop, Polly Borland and Darren Sylvester.
The annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism act as something of a mirror to society—reflecting back the year we had through photographs. The exhibition of the 2023 winners is currently on display at the State Library of Victoria.
In her first major solo exhibition, now showing at Carriageworks, Salote Tawale brings together painting, sculpture, and karaoke in an expansive installation that explores identity and memory.
In a collaboration with Two Good Co, Leanne Xiu Williams’s sumptuous still life paintings act as chapter openers and end papers for their new cookbook Changing the Course. The paintings themselves are now on display at Saint Cloche for an exhibition of the same name.
A new exhibition at Geelong Gallery, in partnership with the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Tarnanthi program, tells the stories of the women artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.