There is an uncomfortable positioning of being both inside and outside the boundaries of control within relationships—and navigating such an in-betweenness drives Olivia Colja’s art at Kolbusz Space.
“I am absolutely interested in making an image worth looking at.” The first survey of Catherine Rogers’s photography, Evidence and The Visible at ANU’s Drill Hall Gallery, looks at the allure of ‘unreal’ images.
With work probing the socio-cultural conditions which define our age, Karla Marchesi’s latest paintings at Jan Manton Gallery are a bright contrast of floral forms, both in tone and colour.
In 2013, Tasmanian furniture maker and artist Gay Hawkes lost her home and art studio in the Dunalley bushfires. For the past nine years, Hawkes has slowly been rebuilding new pieces for her future home, captured in The House of Longing at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Lack of political action and industry irresponsibility are high on the list of causes for our climate crisis—which Emilio Cresciani foregrounds in State of Change at Perth Centre for Photography.
Working in her Canberra studio, German-born artist Stefanie Schulte listens to music. Many artists do that while working, but Schulte’s listening is different: she sees music as much as she hears it, and that faculty is apparent in her latest suite of paintings, Vivaldi’s Seasons at ANCA.
Frank Morris’s paintings in Rock, Paper, Scissors, Sigh are an exercise in formal innovation, showing at Art Collective WA—where his art is open to multiple, perhaps endless, meanings
The son of Italian migrants, Steve Lopes explores how cultural and psychological identity can evolve and expand in an Australian environment, with its “intensity of colour and light”, as he puts it. His latest show is at Orange Regional Gallery.
Solitude is a habit for Belynda Henry and, as an artist, immersion in the landscape drives her paintings. Her latest works at Edwina Corlette distil imagery which is vested in place, conveying its many moods and experiences.
Richard Blackwell’s latest exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery explores the places where the real and unreal intersect in our increasingly digitised world.
While the overarching theme of the upcoming PHOTO 2022 Festival of Photography is expansive—“being human”—the headline Helmut Newton exhibition is an intimate look at the artist’s life and trajectory, who’s known for his elegant 1950s fashion images.
