At first glance, Susanne Kerr’s large gouache paintings of delicate floral arrangements convey lightness and whimsy—but something else is going on under the surface.
“It transcends time and cultures,” says Geelong Gallery senior curator Lisa Sullivan of the well-known, perhaps even iconic, Frederick McCubbin painting A bush burial, 1890.
The Argentinian-Australian artist’s solo exhibition at Moore Contemporary is grounded in extensive ancestral research.
The art of Patrick Hall is like a repository of memory that weaves together poetic narratives of world history and personal experience, in particular the history of World War II. His work is now showing at Despard Gallery.
In Hapyhazard, online at Flinders Lane Gallery, Michael Gromm performs a lyrical dance between figuration and abstraction.
The winners of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) have been announced with Western Australian artist Timo Hogan taking out the $50,000 Telstra Art Award with Lake Baker, 2020.
From Cairns to Darwin to Gold Coast to Melbourne to South Australia, throughout August there are multiple art fairs and festivals throughout the country, as well as online. Here’s our round-up of what to see.
Drawing upon the debated life of 18th-century French spy Chevalière d’Éon, Madison Bycroft’s new video at Samstag Museum looks at the unknowability of personhood.
Rosella Namok’s Recent Paintings are about colour, alongside telling stories of Country and family from the Ungkum artist’s home in Far North Queensland.
The Greek myth of Daphne—a nymph who turned into a tree after the Greek god Apollo chased her—echoes our current conversations on consent and climate change. And it’s the basis of ACCA’s new show.
