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.
Eugenia Lim’s major exhibition The Ambassador is currently touring Australia, and brings together works featuring her invented persona, also called the ambassador, who she inhabits across multiple videos, performances and sites.
As toilet paper (or the lack of it) made national headlines, artist Adrienne Doig turned a by-product of this basic commodity – the left over cardboard rolls – into a feel-good doll-making project anyone can do at home.
As artistic director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist Brook Andrew is bringing together over 90 artists, creatives, collectives and communities from Australia and across the globe.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt brings Thailand’s Wat Pho temple to Australia through her multi-sensory installation Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind at the Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts.
With a practice spanning three decades, Louise Weaver is well-known for her meticulously crochet-encased animal forms.
Grayson Perry takes to the stage in a one-person show, Them & Us, covering everything from politics and fashion to art and childhood toys. Briony Downes spoke to Perry ahead of his upcoming appearances in Sydney and Melbourne.
Urs Fischer’s four-metre red wax sculpture, Francesco, 2017, is designed to be lit and slowly melted like a candle. Recently acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), the sculpture’s decomposition is being documented on social media—and attracting lively discussion.
Jumaadi’s exhibition My love is an Island Far Away at Mosman Art Gallery has been years in the making.
In the exhibitions Barkindji Blue Sky and Unvanished, Melbourne based Barkindji man Kent Morris uses digital photography to illustrate how Indigenous culture adapts to change.
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
