“She hasn’t gone to art school or locked herself into a style. She has used painting, drawing, ceramics and even performance to explore different ideas relating to her engagement with the world.” Robyn Bischoff’s latest abstract works are showing at Bunbury Regional Gallery.
From climate change to the simple respite of a frosty ice cream on a boiling summer day, Swelter at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery shows how artists filter this country’s extreme heat.
The art of storytelling has been integral to Chinese culture and history for thousands of years—and White Rabbit Gallery is exploring how contemporary artists are keeping this timeless practice alive, especially in today’s digital age.
Niloufar Lovegrove’s beguiling prints at Artspace Mackay show a deft fusion of cultures that not only allows profound new perspectives on environmental crises, but is also a self-exploration.
From her feminist prints and posters of the 1970s to her later landscape paintings, Mandy Martin’s (1952-2021) retrospective at Geelong Gallery shows her long-term fight for the Australian environment.
For better or worse, data is intrinsic to modern life. In recent months with various data breach scandals, Australians have been reminded of its omnipresence— and in Data Relations at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, artists explore how data manifests both personally and societally.
In Equilibrium at Heide Museum of Modern Art is the first major survey exhibition of Barbara Hepworth’s work in Australia; its title alludes to Hepworth’s ability to meld empty space with solid form, texture and colour to create a unified whole.
One of the most significant designers of his generation, Alexander McQueen’s subversive designs pushed the boundaries of fashion—and the National Gallery of Victoria is revealing the theatrical breadth of his work in their major summer exhibition.
Printmakers Monika Lukowska and Nikki Green have collaborated with poet Renee Pettitt-Schipp to highlight the importance of preserving the ecosystems of Western Australia’s south coast. Their exhibition, Tracing Gondwana, is now showing at Midland Junction Arts Centre.
Teo Treloar has lately been collecting and illustrating editions of Albert Camus’s The Plague—a novel about, you guessed it, plagues. Now, Treloar’s stunningly detailed drawings are showing at Grafton Regional Gallery.
Lydia Wegner’s photographs urge audiences to question what they see. Wegner’s latest work at Arc One Gallery presents audiences with visual abstractions that cause reason to pause and pay attention.
From being a carpenter on the Wollongong waterfront to working at Bunnings and then becoming a successful artist, it’s little wonder Dan Moynihan’s practice reveals a love of materials, alongside a good dose of humour—as his new show at Tolarno illustrates.
