In his Venice work, We Don’t Really Need This / EMBASSY, Bell has wrapped a replica of the Australian Pavilion in chains (an institutional critique through an architectural intervention), sited it on a barge, and sailed it throughout the Venetian lagoon.
With a practice spanning four decades, Melbourne-based jeweller Susan Cohn makes both highly wearable and deeply political work.
Zoe Freney spoke to Freeman about her interest in everyday objects of mourning and loss, the ability of clay to hold memories, and her use of the brittle poetry of ceramics to create vessels that hold time, space, legends and tears.
“Years later I was walking down the street and I was hit by a wave of that pungent smell that explodes out the back of the garbage truck as it compacts the trash. As aromas of dogshit and grass clippings filtered through me I felt incredibly warm and got goosebumps.”
It’s a big jump from Australia to an island in the Baltic Sea. During 2017 and 2018 the London-based Australian artist Sam Smith visited the Swedish island of Gotland as part of an artist exchange organised by Western Australia’s International Art Space.
In Ian Tully’s solo exhibition, a farmer prepares for the inevitable move to Mars.
Melbourne-based curator and art historian Elizabeth Cross is less known for her own work as an artist, but this identification is shifting with the opening of her exhibition, Arborescent, at the Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery.
Undercurrent seeks to broaden how we acknowledge the Frontier Wars and massacre sites which scar country.
A Centre for Everything is a socially-engaged creative project operating at the intersection of art, learning, food, play, and activism.
Both Frida and Diego were productive and intensive artists, so they collected photographs as iconography to paint from.
For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.
Sera Waters talked with Sheridan Coleman about dated craft fads, the silences of Australian history, and her current residency and upcoming shows from a squashy velveteen divan, amid skeins of pastel yarn.
