Since the 1960s Mike Parr has been defining performance art. Known for his performances of extremis, from hacking off a fake arm to burying himself underneath a Tasmanian road for three days. With a new, three-part exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Parr talks about catharsis, the institutionalisation of performance art, and the motivations behind what he does.
Showing at UNSW Galleries, Renee So talks on her multidisciplinary practice, art history and museum collections—and how her work looks at “being a female, being Asian, being a mum, being an artist and living in the world”.
Exploring his Indigenous queer identity, Peter Waples-Crowe pushes expectations. Timmah Ball talks with Waples-Crowe about his art intersecting with his health and social justice work, and how his survey Pride at ACE signals closure alongside new directions.
With vivid new paintings and sculptures at Tolarno Galleries, Brendan Huntley talks about his use of colour, capturing energy, and the nature of creating.
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.
