Spanning paintings, drawings on wood and installation, Ferretti’s exhibition continues her characteristic blend between figurative scenes, alongside a tendency towards abstraction.
For Mandy Quadrio creating art is an act of asserting sovereignty. “The forms and images I make hold stories, but they’re also acts of resistance, allowing me to assert and reclaim my presence as a proud Palawa woman,” says the artist.
Kylie Elkington’s soft-hued botanical paintings recall the temperament and sincerity of Pre-Raphaelite works from the mid-19th century.
To coincide with the 200-year anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, RMIT Gallery presents My Monster: The Human Animal Hybrid.
The links between portraiture and national history are complex and entwined. The group exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history is exploring this relationship by using portraiture to reconsider and reimagine Australia’s dominant historical narratives.
The pujiman, meaning bush or desert born, were the last Indigenous Australians to live entirely nomadically.
“Dooralong is just a valley populated by horses, cows and trees, but it’s very beautiful to me,” says Belynda Henry of her home in New South Wales.
Showing at Devonport Regional Gallery, the Burnie-based artist’s work explores his ancestors’ past, alongside the emotion and memory of living on an Aboriginal mission.
In Brooke Leigh’s video Searching For Alice, 2015-2017, scenes of a deciduous forest bereft of leaves are interspersed with close-up shots of a young woman’s mouth.
Brodie Ellis’s video work, A Crystal World, 2016, cuts together footage of Australian mining explosions, sourced online, into a slow motion sequence.
A collection of full-scale concrete barriers, painted in Yves Klein’s trademark blue, rest in an untidy pile on a gallery floor.
A unique and unprecedented collaboration between four galleries in the Hunter region, the Hunter Red suite of exhibitions aims to celebrate the Indigenous culture, social diversity, iconoclastic spirit and creative flamboyance of this growing area of NSW.
