The first Sanaa Festival was held in Adelaide in 2017. This year, six African artists are being flown to Australia and more will have work in the Sanaa Exhibition, which is part of the Adelaide Fringe festival.
Thirty years ago in Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year, contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu made her artistic debut by firing a shotgun at her installation Dialogue.
Sherbet pink, spray painted white, scribbles and muted text are some of the colours and images that dance across the canvases of Sarah crowEST’s recent paintings.
Superficially at least, one thing that seems to link the wildly disparate photos, drawings, videos, paintings, sculpture and prints in Obsession: Devil in the detail – across both time and genres – is time-consuming labour.
Quiet and considered movement and gesture pervade Gabriella and Silvana Mangano’s lyrical, mainly video based, practice.
Tasmanian artist Rosie Hastie exploits the photographic medium like an illusionist. To create her work, Hastie combines skillfully placed lighting with wads of crumpled paper to produce the impression of a fantastical landscape.
Digging deep into this most universal of human experiences, LOVE at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum includes a wealth of objects from the Museum Victoria collection, as well as artworks and oral histories collected from the community.
Beyond Reason is an embrace of colour, shape and exuberant imaginings. The full-throttle aesthetic of these paintings, sculptures, ceramics, videos, fashion, and installations is only just contained by the space in the QUT Art Museum.
The work of the renowned American artist Adrian Piper will be presented alongside Amrita Hepi, a rising star in contemporary Australian performance art.
As urbanised humans are increasingly distanced from the means of food production, the choice of what and how we eat becomes a political act.
Adorn explores how items we put on our bodies are invested with meaning – not only by their creators, but by the people who wear them. The result is a series of stories as varied as the individuals who wear the objects.
Curiouser and Curiouser takes that classic of absurdity and perceptual play, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as its starting point.
