Hilarie Mais
The work of Hilarie Mais presents an uncommon combination: the geometric and abstract married – unexpectedly, successfully – with the atmospheric and the organic.
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The work of Hilarie Mais presents an uncommon combination: the geometric and abstract married – unexpectedly, successfully – with the atmospheric and the organic.
Immigration, displacement and memory are the impetus for a new series of embroideries by Adelaide-based artist Nina Frigault.
Working between 1988 and 2005, Çerkez’s practice is heavily conceptual, containing doses of minimalism and the aesthetics of late modernism.
The six medieval French tapestries known collectively as The Lady and the Unicorn cycle are a conundrum.
Monika Behrens paints still-life arrangements from a psychedelic dreamscape.
UK artist Amy Sharrocks describes the Museum of Water as “A mosaic of the universe that cherishes voices and careful listening.”
The works confront you in the foyer of the gallery; large, gestural paintings of a central figure, a fleshy man whose red mouth full of teeth is mirrored by the red toothy snarl of the black dog.
When Tobias Spitzer from Newcastle Art Gallery came across a large painting by Warren Knight with the “mysterious title” Do-to kal 1969 its greyish tones became the starting point for the curatorial project Grisaille: Shades of Grey from the Collection.
Darwin-based Franck Gohier’s retrospective at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, A Thousand Miles from Everywhere, showcases the past two decades of his practice.
In Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art you will find: a lightbox representing the entire universe; a dark room of floating figures; and the slowed-down breaking of a single wave, mapping the step-by-step shift as the water eventually crashes.
In Isaac Julien’s film Looking for Langston we begin at the end: a funeral. Well-dressed men and women sob, tears running down their cheeks.
Jon Campbell’s practice is characterised by an avid interest in Australian vernacular, local and national iconography, popular cultural, colloquial sayings, graphic design tropes, vivid colours and negative space.
