Carey Merten combines mathematics with art
Bold, obsessive and geometric. These are some of the words used to describe Carey Merten’s paintings.
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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.
The paintings in New Zealander Judy Millar’s solo show, My Body Pressed, have a particularly visceral quality.
When coordinator Erin Coates talks about the upcoming show at Fremantle Art Centre, Revealed Exhibition: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists, she pauses to talk about one work in particular.
Everyday Shrines asks the question: what would it look like if Thai superstitions and rituals were applied to Australia’s national icons?
Impressionism is beloved by Australian audiences, there’s no doubt about it. While firmly grounded in realism and representational art, it is also in many instances, an abandonment of form and line to chase instead, the momentary and the luminous.
“Painting is something that I am endlessly challenged and fascinated by. And I struggle with it,” Maestri says.
The APY Art Centre Collective is an organisation that supports 10 Indigenous owned and governed enterprises who work from the APY Lands in northern South Australia.
Recently Withey’s practice has focused on the environment and how the human presence effects it.
Robert Smithson: Time Crystals is not an exhibition that you can take in on opening night.
