Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa—and her art, showing at Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, is entwined with this history.
Elisabeth Cummings has painted dappled Australian landscapes for over 60 years. Ahead of her survey exhibition at NAS Gallery, she spoke influences, doubt, achievement, and the quiet moments that breathe life into art.
Ahead of Jazz Money’s latest film and poetry work for Between Waves at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Money talks with poet Neika Lehman about how meaning is formed between the meeting of word and image.
For almost 40 years, Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara woman Vicki Couzens has worked in the Aboriginal community, profoundly changing the cultural landscape around her. She talks about making “creative cultural expression” rather than “art”, alongside her new collaboration at Buxton Contemporary.
Jonathan Jones’s National Gallery of Australia exhibition takes cue from a 32,000-year-old grindstone used for Aboriginal breadmaking. In an extremely thoughtful conversation with Timmah Ball, Jones talks about how this long precedes Western food production—but questions if people understand what this truly means.
For Melbourne Design Week, creatives Jana Perkovic and Emily Wong consider how women through the ages have modified their fertility, bodies and childbearing. As Lauren Carroll Harris unpacks in an interview with the pair, fertility has never been entirely primal or natural—it’s designed.
One of India’s leading contemporary artists, Mithu Sen’s ‘mind map’ exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary art is focussed on dismantling discipline, power and surface niceties that are engrained in institutions from governments to the art world.
Known for her feminist and activist practice, Kate Just has knitted texts revealing her own self-care tools like “get therapy”, “make art” and “learn something new”. With these works currently showing at Linden New Art, Just talks about how important self-care is.
Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are an ideal combination. Two of this country’s leading artists, they’ve now come together for an exhibition, currently on display at the Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie. In a very generous conversation, they talk about the process of creating a show together, motherhood, and balancing politics and aesthetics.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist who works with photography and moving image. Having won the 66th Blake Prize in 2021, her art focuses on little-known histories. Ahead of exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Stevens talks about creating from history.
For over 50 years, Peter Tyndall has relentlessly explored what it means to look at art. With an extraordinary retrospective at Buxton Contemporary, Tyndall talks about seriousness and humour, buddhism and postmodernism, his catholic upbringing, and how he looks at a work of art.
From sustainability to non-living participants to waterways, this year’s 23rd Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of nature through 89 participants and over 330 artworks. Ahead of the opening this Saturday, we talked to artistic director José Roca and curatorial member Anna Davis, about the ideas and processes behind the Biennale.
