Stacey McCall on the domesticity of painting
Stacey McCall understands painting as both a domestic pursuit and a calm meditation. Her latest series Breathwork is showing at Michael Reid Murrurundi.
Stacey McCall understands painting as both a domestic pursuit and a calm meditation. Her latest series Breathwork is showing at Michael Reid Murrurundi.
An exhibition at QAGOMA is taking inspiration from Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, drawing from the gallery’s Indigenous Australian art collection to celebrate the connection between plants and Country.
Matilda Davis’s newest exhibition at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery confronts the devastation that colonialism and capitalism have wreaked on Country.
Geelong Gallery is pairing renowned Australian artists Margaret Preston (1875—1963) with the contemporary Cressida Campbell, in exploration of their mutual affinity for the Japanese ukiyo-e print.
In her latest collection of works, now showing at Tactile Arts, Hunnah James incorporates shedded discards from local paperbarks trees into her watercolour paintings of native flora and fauna.
A new show at Craft Victoria asks six creatives—artists, makers, designers—to respond to aluminium as a material. All the aluminium used is recycled, highlighting the space’s new Conscious Craft initiative.
The beachside charm of the Gold Coast is getting the Renaissance treatment with the region’s major gallery, Home of the Arts (HOTA), exhibiting not “old master” paintings per se, but a series of multifaceted, immersive projections of works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli and Caravaggio, among many others.
Fabrication, a co-curatorial project now showing at DRAW Space, brings together 10 contemporary artists working in the intersections of drawing and digital fabrication.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is showing now at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Annika Harding’s latest work at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, focuses on the Atherton Tablelands, exploring the tension between natural beauty, relentless meteorological forces, and the built environment that supports local agricultural communities.
Parrtjima—the Northern Territory’s annual festival of lights at the Alice Springs Desert Park—is entering its ninth year, and this time the immersive festival’s focus is interconnectedness.
An exhibition at UQ Art Museum centres the relationship between culture, tradition and the ocean, and illuminates how intergenerational storytelling, tied to oceanic themes, might subvert settler-colonial narratives.