From art crushes to parenting to why she largely uses black-and-white images, we caught up with Gunditjmara artist Hayley Millar Baker to ask 20 quick questions about her 2022 survey show at Flinders University Museum of Art, and how her images speak to Aboriginal experiences and memory.
Meaning lies somewhere between humour, absurdity, and mortality in Brent Harris’s paintings and prints. With a recent survey in New Zealand, Harris is now exhibiting with an Australian showing of 40 years of work, titled Surrender & Catch, currently at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Lisa Gorman has always looked to art as inspiration. The Gorman founder and former creative director is starting a new chapter as a multidisciplinary artist, and Warrnambool Art Gallery is exhibiting her new works alongside the art of Mirka Mora.
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.
