With organza, tulle, empty photo frames and ash, Sonja Porcaro gently peels back the divergent histories of Sauerbier House and Ngangkiparinga, the adjacent saltwater river.
Weaving is synonymous with world-making. In numerous cultures, the loom is a metaphor for creation; a person’s life often represented by a spun thread.
Constructing Landscape: urban visions reflects a new chapter in the nation’s consideration of how the urban environment might be represented.
The Blade explores the Australian history of lawn from kangaroo grass to the footy field; the scythe to the electric mower; the suburban Hills Hoist to the sweeping verdure of state buildings.
Wrestling with both excessive consumption and planned obsolescence in technology, New for Old takes as its starting point the cathode-ray tube TV.
Meredith Turnbull has been creating digital works that look at the idea of ‘excess’.
Miles Hall’s recent paintings evoke romance through their depth of surface and fairy tale inspirations.
Overlapping Magisteria is the name of the 2020 Macfarlane Commissions on show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
“A big part of art is sharing it with others. Painting is only art while someone is looking at it; that is already a collaboration between the artist and the audience.”
Weapons for the Soldier brings together 41 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on warfare and the inherent drive to protect Country, family and culture.
For three decades Lisa Roet has used drawing and sculpture to highlight the similarities between humans and apes—close relations with whom we share 98% of our DNA.
From Marlon Brando’s Triumph Thunderbird 6T in ‘The Wild One’ to the Harley-Davidsons of ‘Easy Rider’, motorcycles have, over the decades, given art and entertainment some pivotal, iconic moments.
