Gallery director Steven Joyce says the contrast between Garland’s black-and-white photographs and Usmiani’s colourful work will present well visually. “They’re showing jointly and will feed off each other,” he says.
Spinifex is the material of choice for Macnamara, who twists, coils and weaves the grass to create forms that are at once delicate, intricate, complex and subtle.
Bringing together 20 projects from Australian and international artists, mathematicians, scientists, psychologists and designers, PERFECTION positions its theme as neither virtue nor vice.
Sydney Contemporary, like any art fair, is a massive marketplace full to bursting with artworks that collectors can take home, if the price is right.
For 20 years, Joanna Logue painted the landscape she knew best – the one right outside her relatively isolated studio in Oberon, inland over the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
Ben Howe’s paintings become less clear as you move closer towards them. “I suppose my work sits within a broader definition of hyperrealism: that it’s a perfect rendition of something that never existed,” he says.
In the group show Human non Human, the question of what it is to be human is tackled by five artists who actively engage with technology and/or the tropes of science.
In Cuttings–Elizabeth Gower, visitors to Geelong Gallery can see a 21-metre-long artwork hand-collaged from paper scraps just two centimetres square.
Occupying warren-like apartments above Bon Marché Arcade in the Perth CBD, Cool Change has an already-evident agenda to contrast itself with the sobriety and commercial focus of neighbouring exhibition programs.
Artists in digital media, photography, painting, artist books, poetic films, and textiles come together under this exhibition banner to debate a relationship between certainty and uncertainty, knowledge and incomprehension.
Word, a group exhibition of 28 artists at Hugo Michell Gallery in Adelaide, is an in-house curated showcase of text-based work by Australian artists.
Australian Muslim Artists showcases the diversity of the contemporary Muslim experience in Australia, and in the current political and media climate, that is something that should be celebrated.
