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.
Cement Fondu, a new multi-disciplinary gallery, has opened in Sydney. Its inaugural exhibition Suburbia celebrates and unpacks the peripheries of the city.
The two-person art collective position TERROR NULLIUS as an unwieldy road movie, using acts of sampling and appropriation to tour through, while also challenging, white Australian cinema and history.
Dreams and the subconscious are themes Joel Crosswell returns to often. His drawings and sculptures reference biographical events with a dreamlike sensibility where abstract elements of the natural world filter through his images.
Lisa Sewards’s interest in parachutes stems from family lore. Her mother, who spent several childhood years in a European refugee camp, related a memory from that time of finding a silk parachute left over from the war.
ACE Open will exhibit Waqt al-tagheer, a show which ponders temporality while amplifying the voices of Eleven, a new collective of Muslim Australian artists.
Dark Imaginings: Gothic Tales of Wonder spans rare books and music, and further includes prints by Henry Fuseli, Salvator Rosa, G.B. Piranesi, Francisco Goya and Charles Méryon.
Present, curated by writer/curator Kate Britton (who is also the director of Art Month Sydney), brings together a group of unrepresented artists: Kalanjay Dhir, Caroline Garcia, Get to Work, Samuel Hodge, Claudia Nicholson, and Athena Thebus.
