Soil acts as both matter and metaphor in a new collaborative exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art that looks at the relationship between colonisation and environmental change.
View, in pictures, the women of early Modernism in Australia, showing at the National Gallery of Australia’s new iteration of the Know My Name initiative—a series of exhibitions that shine a light on overlooked women artists through history.
A Sydneysider and Northern Territory local are being exhibited alongside each other in country X Country, the inaugural exhibition for Art Leven, formerly Cooee Art—Australia’s oldest Indigenous gallery.
Fifteen artists use photography to bring their stories into the light, in a new exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Ingrid Morley has experienced great loss in the last few years, reckoning with bushfires, a studio fire and the death of a very close friend. Her new show at Orange Regional Gallery responds to this period of upheaval.
In Sam Michelle’s exhibition Play at Martin Browne Contemporary, oil paintings of flora, textiles and vessels become metaphors for childhood creativity—a spirit that adulthood often risks losing.
“There’s something very special about looking into where you come from and what surrounds you,” says Sydney artist Bruce Slorach. View, in pictures, Slorach’s latest art centred on the beauty of Australian flora and fauna, as showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Five First Nations artists, ranging the Gurreng Gurreng, Gunggarri, Iningai, Kamilaroi, and Kombumerri lands, honour the past, celebrate the present, and secure the future in East Coast Matters, showing at Kate Owen Gallery.
“For the Balinese, the seen and the unseen are inseparable, a belief strongly intertwined in their way of life.” A new exhibition at Footscray Community Arts asks five contemporary Balinese artists to bring a modern perspective to traditional practices—see the exquisite results in pictures.
Through evocative tableau photographs, Yuki Kihara, a Pasifika and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s ‘third gender’) artist from Aotearoa, is dismantling gender roles and ‘returning the gaze’ to Pacific Islanders.
For hundreds of years, artists have captured—and even been obsessed with—faces. Spanning over a century and more than 50 artists, 100 Faces at Monash Gallery of Art reveals the diversity of photographic portraiture.
