The Omie is a community living in the remote rainforest mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province creating the art of tapa—a tradition spanning across the Pacific. When Skirts Become Artworks: Sihoti’e Nioge, showing at Caloundra Regional Gallery, reveals the Omie’s distinctive tapa designs.
For far too long depictions of Australian landscapes have been dominated by male artists. Now the Art Gallery of Ballarat is showcasing reinterpretations of Australian Impressionism by female photographers, focusing on gender, migration and First Nations history.
Tim Price’s latest series of paintings at Penny Contemporary playfully evoke the strange and surprising moments in life.
With a practice spanning five decades, Nalini Malani’s innovative video and performance art is internationally acclaimed for interrogating gender, race and political histories. Malani’s first major Australian survey is now showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
For over three decades Do Ho Suh has worked across forms like installation, sculpture and film to interrogate diaspora and concepts of belonging. Suh’s first Australian solo is now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art this summer.
In 1966 in the Northern Territory, 200 Gurindji workers pushed forward the land rights movement in Australia. Known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the strike protested Aboriginal land dispossession and worker exploitation. Now, Still in My Mind at ANU Drill Hall Gallery examines this significant moment.
Sandra Selig uses everyday materials to uncover the hidden forces around us—from spiderwebs to celestial forms. Selig’s largest exhibition to date is now showing at the University of New South Wales Galleries.
For over a decade John Young has distinctively approached colour and form to highlight overlooked narratives of Chinese people in Australia since 1840. His latest exhibition, None Living Knows, is now showing at Moore Contemporary.
Madame Mystery is not a real person, but you can text her to learn your fortune. And she’s a key character in Anna Carey’s latest miniature photographs at Artereal Gallery.
From Polly Borland’s glittering photograph of Queen Elizabeth to Maree Clarke’s tremendously stitched possum skin cloak, to John Nixon’s cross painting, the exhibition Who Are You: Australian Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery is centered on challenging the traditional conventions of portraiture.
Departing from her training in figurative painting, Lucy Turnbull’s Riverside exhibition at Sauerbier House embraces how conversations with the local community give new artistic expression.
“Objects are just things we can touch, smell and see,” explains filmmaker Maddie Grammatopoulos when talking about what makes a house a home. Her award-winning film Which Made This Place Home is showing at Praxis Art Space.
