In 2013, Tasmanian furniture maker and artist Gay Hawkes lost her home and art studio in the Dunalley bushfires. For the past nine years, Hawkes has slowly been rebuilding new pieces for her future home, captured in The House of Longing at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Lack of political action and industry irresponsibility are high on the list of causes for our climate crisis—which Emilio Cresciani foregrounds in State of Change at Perth Centre for Photography.
Working in her Canberra studio, German-born artist Stefanie Schulte listens to music. Many artists do that while working, but Schulte’s listening is different: she sees music as much as she hears it, and that faculty is apparent in her latest suite of paintings, Vivaldi’s Seasons at ANCA.
Frank Morris’s paintings in Rock, Paper, Scissors, Sigh are an exercise in formal innovation, showing at Art Collective WA—where his art is open to multiple, perhaps endless, meanings
The son of Italian migrants, Steve Lopes explores how cultural and psychological identity can evolve and expand in an Australian environment, with its “intensity of colour and light”, as he puts it. His latest show is at Orange Regional Gallery.
Solitude is a habit for Belynda Henry and, as an artist, immersion in the landscape drives her paintings. Her latest works at Edwina Corlette distil imagery which is vested in place, conveying its many moods and experiences.
Richard Blackwell’s latest exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery explores the places where the real and unreal intersect in our increasingly digitised world.
While the overarching theme of the upcoming PHOTO 2022 Festival of Photography is expansive—“being human”—the headline Helmut Newton exhibition is an intimate look at the artist’s life and trajectory, who’s known for his elegant 1950s fashion images.
In Search of Mohamed at This Is No Fantasy includes multichannel video and photography works that explore the tensions between “the reverent and the profane”.
Curator Patrice Sharkey has been programming exhibitions about the internet for years, and her latest, Metaverse at ACE Open, invites viewers to stoke some scepticism about the corporations that control our online world.
Dual theories of life’s beginnings inform Marikit Santiago’s work, showing at the newly reopened 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
