“Jeff Koons says ‘embrace your past’,” cites Michael Zavros. “I think I’m good at that.” Brisbane-based Zavros, arguably one of Australia’s most celebrated artists of the last decade, has been dissecting his personal and artistic history his survey The Favourite at Queensland Art Gallery.
Art is often cited as one of the few places left in Western culture to have shared reflections on death and mourning—and this is being given form by 11 contemporary artists in One foot on the ground, one foot in the water at Pinnacles Gallery.
Yasmin Smith examines plants as time-honoured witnesses of Country, story and people. Mosman Art Gallery is showing a collection of her works, highlighting the interconnectedness of Smith’s archive, as well as our human relationship to nature.
Featuring Aboriginal artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce, Looking Glass brings together beautiful objects with a sting in the tail.
The Jewish Museum of Australia is exploring the lesser-known areas of Marc Chagall’s prolific and varied career: his printmaking, poetry, publishing, and public art, while also asking contemporary artist Yvette Coppersmith to respond with her own works.
Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s practice spans painting, costume and performance,and he uses local waste and rented equipment to create installations that can be made from scratch at each new location. Having been awarded the 2023 Porter Street Commission, his large-scale participatory sculpture ROCKAMORA is now being shown at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.
Pierre Bonnard is known for his vivid landscapes and interior settings, and this winter the National Gallery of Victoria will host his work within the scenography of renowned Iranian-French architect and designer, India Mahdavi.
Rembrandt is arguably one of the most influential and revered artists in history. Now, the NGV is putting on the most comprehensive exhibition of his vast oeuvre in more than 25 years.
The Brooklyn-based artist was the editor, model, stylist and photographer on a 2018 project, ‘Indigenous Woman Magazine’, now showing at Cairns Art Gallery.
Known for expressing children’s emotional complexity, Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo displays an artist resurrecting his practice after tragedy, showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Working widely across print mediums, Barbara Hanrahan’s (1939-1991) art explores beauty, domesticity and the afterlife, balancing the ethereal and the everyday. Now, her work is touring throughout South Australia.
With recent cultural reckonings, it’s clear audiences want to see strong women on screen. That is exactly what ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess is delivering, celebrating the defiant disruptors and headstrong heroines of film.
