What happens when slogans and catchphrases are treated as instructions? In 2020, a year riddled with new phrases and contradictory messaging, Michelle Hamer has had plenty to work with.
Drawing upon passing scenes from life, and filled with allusions to pop culture, Anne Wallace’s realist paintings deliver images that flitter between intimate and suspenseful.
Tinged with sadness and a wicked sense of humour, Karla Dickens creates art that speaks of identity, discrimination and acts of violence against Aboriginal people. In our interview, Dickens talks about creating new work, her hometown of Lismore, and the importance of writing poetry.
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
Coelho creates porcelain objects that marry expert technique to timeless evocations of functional forms.
Panic Buy, a collaborative exhibition by Tiyan Baker and Guy Louden, is a unique innovative deconstruction of a pandemic-induced phenomenon.
As still as life celebrates the work of photographer Robyn Stacey, whose arrangements of museum holdings reconstitute the obsessions and occupations of historical collectors.
Tracey Clement spoke to the Melbourne-based painter about his ongoing environmental concerns, Spanish heritage and his instinct to turn to imaginary creatures for inspiration during lockdown.
Porcelain, fur, paraffin wax, silk, resin, glass, bones, fox and rabbit pelt, Tibetan gazelle horns: these are just some of the materials Juz Kitson uses to create her highly tactile, creature-like sculptural forms.
Danie Mellor’s new online exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, The Sun Also Sets, made up of paintings and large-format photomontages, is a deeply considered meditation on time, culture and the notion of ‘landspace.’
Kylie Stillman’s silhouetted carvings of natural forms, such as trees and birds, are built up slowly over days and weeks, hollowed out from stacks of reinforced paper or timber with hand tools, knives and jigsaws.
Giselle Stanborough’s Cinopticon was relevant well before the current pandemic crisis. But as our personal and professional lives are moving online rapidly and more comprehensively than ever, Stanborough’s research takes on a kind of chilling urgency.
