Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s practice spans painting, costume and performance,and he uses local waste and rented equipment to create installations that can be made from scratch at each new location. Having been awarded the 2023 Porter Street Commission, his large-scale participatory sculpture ROCKAMORA is now being shown at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.
Pierre Bonnard is known for his vivid landscapes and interior settings, and this winter the National Gallery of Victoria will host his work within the scenography of renowned Iranian-French architect and designer, India Mahdavi.
Rembrandt is arguably one of the most influential and revered artists in history. Now, the NGV is putting on the most comprehensive exhibition of his vast oeuvre in more than 25 years.
The Brooklyn-based artist was the editor, model, stylist and photographer on a 2018 project, ‘Indigenous Woman Magazine’, now showing at Cairns Art Gallery.
Known for expressing children’s emotional complexity, Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo displays an artist resurrecting his practice after tragedy, showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Working widely across print mediums, Barbara Hanrahan’s (1939-1991) art explores beauty, domesticity and the afterlife, balancing the ethereal and the everyday. Now, her work is touring throughout South Australia.
With recent cultural reckonings, it’s clear audiences want to see strong women on screen. That is exactly what ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess is delivering, celebrating the defiant disruptors and headstrong heroines of film.
After visiting archaeological museums in Syracuse, Adrienne Doig began creating doll-like, textile figures of herself reimagined as a goddess—which are now showing at Martin Browne Contemporary.
Hobart-based photographic artist Valerie Sparks creates visually immersive installations inspired by 19th century French scenic wallpaper and the work of female botanical artists, which are now showing at Bett Gallery.
Sophie Lampert’s soft, sculptural works explore the lives and atypical vocations of women throughout history, and are on display at Orange Regional Gallery.
Mel O’Callaghan’s art delves into one of our most fundamental questions.
In 1966, American pop artist Robert Indiana created Love, an iconic image in which the word “love” appears in red letters on a blue and green background. Since then, it’s been reproduced ad nauseam in painting, print and sculpture. Enter Melbourne-based artist Clare Longley, who repositions such romanticised imagery from a queer perspective.
