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.
In Part II of Mike Parr’s solo exhibition Half Way House, at Anna Schwartz Gallery, the artist’s earlier performances haunt the space creating disorientating echoes.
For over 35 years Badtjala artist Fiona Foley has created powerful art on the atrocities of colonialism. Now, the artist has a major survey at QUT Art Museum.
In the group show PIVOT II at Onespace Gallery, artists make books that jump out of their bindings and on to the walls.
Sara Maher is drawn to isolated terrains, immersing herself in the reflective solitude of Tasmanian landscapes. At Bett Gallery, Maher reflects on her deeply affective connection to land.
In its touring program Freighting Ideas, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is sending its artworks on an ambassadorial tour throughout Western Australia to near and distant regional galleries.
Initiated by the JamFactory and touring Australia, CONCRETE brings together 21 projects by artists, architects and designers to explore the conceptual, expressive and material qualities of concrete.
In the group show The Other Portrait, at both UTS and SCA galleries, artists/curators Cherine Fahd and Julie Rrap explore the idea that ‘the other’ is always about the self.
