From quirky birthday cakes to knitting patterns, The Australian Women’s Weekly has a unique place in the Australian psyche. Now, the magazine’s memorabilia, covers and behind-the-scenes photographs are exhibiting at Bendigo Art Gallery.
“It’s really made me reconsider the way I work.” Lisa Sammut’s 10-decade practice spans sculpture, light, video, installation… and now glass. Her beguiling new creations are showing at Canberra Glassworks.
Simone Douglas’s artworks can sometimes take months. She creates art that speaks to time and place, as shown in her Artereal Gallery exhibition, which captures her slowly disappearing ice sculpture, Ice Boat.
Alison McDonald has moved house 26 times. Her latest exhibition at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts revisits her old dwellings through sculptures that interrogate the toll that moving takes.
Nicola Moss’s new paintings at Arthouse Gallery, imbued with organic shapes, textures and colours, are inspired by the English gardens she visited during a trip to London last summer.
“These paintings continue to look at water and sky, the intangible and shifting elements,” says Tasmanian artist Ian Parry of his latest exhibition at Colville Gallery.
How can an individual make themselves truly seen and heard amidst a stratified society? It’s a question asked by 28 contemporary Chinese artists in I Am the People at White Rabbit Gallery.
“Jeff Koons says ‘embrace your past’,” cites Michael Zavros. “I think I’m good at that.” Brisbane-based Zavros, arguably one of Australia’s most celebrated artists of the last decade, has been dissecting his personal and artistic history his survey The Favourite at Queensland Art Gallery.
Art is often cited as one of the few places left in Western culture to have shared reflections on death and mourning—and this is being given form by 11 contemporary artists in One foot on the ground, one foot in the water at Pinnacles Gallery.
Yasmin Smith examines plants as time-honoured witnesses of Country, story and people. Mosman Art Gallery is showing a collection of her works, highlighting the interconnectedness of Smith’s archive, as well as our human relationship to nature.
Featuring Aboriginal artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce, Looking Glass brings together beautiful objects with a sting in the tail.
The Jewish Museum of Australia is exploring the lesser-known areas of Marc Chagall’s prolific and varied career: his printmaking, poetry, publishing, and public art, while also asking contemporary artist Yvette Coppersmith to respond with her own works.
