As the title indicates, Embellish concentrates on the artist’s love of textiles and dressing up, and the show includes both her paintings and drawings of people in elaborate outfits as well as some actual costumes.
Presented by Sabbia Gallery and the Remote Communities Ceramic Network, Clay Stories brings together ceramics from 22 emerging and established Indigenous artists who work from remote Australia.
As the lift doors open on Tolarno Galleries, where Bill Henson’s latest collection of untitled photographs is currently on display, the subdued temple-like atmosphere is immediately affecting.
The group exhibition and performance program Into my Arms at ACE Open contemplates ‘the embrace’ in performance, installation and a series of new commissions.
“Painting is always fictional,” says Tony Lloyd when discussing the links between photography, painting and realism.
In an art world where having a singular artistic refrain or preoccupation is an effective way to get noticed, Adelaide-based artist (and curator, writer) Brigid Noone exalts the merits of inhabiting multiple roles.
Tasmanian artist Nigel Hewitt meditates on the role of fire as a force of destruction, regrowth and change in his exhibition Recinder.
Transparency and other worries presents a new body of work at Brisbane’s Institute for Modern Art in which the artist probes our distanced relationship to mining.
Bold, obsessive and geometric. These are some of the words used to describe Carey Merten’s paintings.
One of the most intriguing highlights of the Next Wave Festival 2018 is actually not, strictly speaking, an artwork by one of the more than 40 creators selected to participate in the showcase of experimental art.
Examining the poetics, textures and vernacular languages of Mexico City are 12 artists who have lived or worked there, participating in the mutual transformation of the city.
Diane Arbus: American Portraits, a National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition currently showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, features 36 of the photographer’s works created during the last decade of her career, 1961 to 1971.
