More than 90 Australian and international galleries are taking part in Sydney Contemporary 2019. The competition for attention can be likened to an arena of visual titans, with galleries prominently displaying their biggest and most bankable artists.
Hotel rooms are a weird blend of public and private space—which, according to Spring1883 co-founder Kate Barber, makes them great places for viewing and selling contemporary art.
Now at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, touring exhibition Soft Core explores the fluctuating, mutable qualities of softness through sculpture.
Often perceived as a modest artform compared to, say, the grandiosity of painting, printmaking has been a site of experimentation, a fact highlighted in Lichtenstein to Warhol: The Kenneth Tyler Collection at the National Gallery of Australia.
Through perforations, rubbings, and Vietnamese Braille, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s 25-year practice gets under the skin—and the surface—of her materials.
In Rain Room, the environment controls us and we control it in an uneasy symbiotic relationship.
Turning Points is the third component of the NGV’s focus on China in its current program, showing alongside Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang and A Fairy Tale in Red Times.
We are living in urgent times courtesy of the climate crisis, with people from Pacific islands suffering more acutely than most.
The selection of Fiona Foley and Liu Bolin as the ‘headline’ artists for this year’s Ballarat International Foto Biennale in many ways beautifully sums up the spirit of this regional festival of photography.
Channels launches this year on 24 August with a showcase exhibition including artist Reko Rennie from Australia, London-Istanbul pair Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, and Almagul Menlibayeva who is based in Germany and Kazakhstan.
There is a concern for decolonisation, the environment and putting forward Indigenous perspectives, and championing a closer and more caring relationship with nature.
Invisible Threads places emphasis on Kotai’s more recent fabric collages, a technique she happened on by chance in the early 2000s.
