“I use green in my work often as a metaphor for greener fields,” he says. “My grandparents immigrated to Australia for this very reason. To create a better life for themselves and their children.”
A master of optical illusion, M.C. Escher (1898–1972) was known for his mathematically inspired prints, which explore perspective, reflection, symmetry and tessellation.
Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz describe the link between their art practices as a feeling of “abundance within sparseness.”
The Melbourne-based painter’s new exhibition at Despard Gallery in Hobart, Time Traveller, features characters and elements that are peculiar yet oddly familiar.
Elucidated with a level of technical finesse that Loxley describes as “dazzling,” Cassils’ work is fierce, raw and unflinching.
Memento, comprising more than a dozen oil paintings, has an elegiac quality. Gannon says the works were mainly created from memory rather than setting up on site for an exercise in “look and put”.
Melbourne Design Week features over 170 events including exhibitions, screenings, talks, tours and workshops, spanning throughout NGV and greater Melbourne.
The set-up of Lydia Wegner’s staged photographs is unassuming. Cast from readymade materials the results are otherworldly.
When staff took five local artists through the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection to see what might grab them, the idea was to eventually have these emerging and mid-career artists show new drawing works in the gallery.
Virtual reality and art are not often paired together, but last year Sydney-based artist Joan Ross took the plunge in this still-developing medium after being awarded the second Mordant Family VR Commission.
Ruth Cummins is interested in the symbolism attached to methods of domestic improvement.
Three decades after Ana Mendieta’s death, Connecting to the Earth brings the Cuban artist’s work to Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA), exploring what close communion with nature could look like in contemporary Australia.
