Detail is important in a visual imagination, but it also punctuates an individual’s memory. This exhibition draws together artworks made since 2002 by Noel McKenna that are also highly personal and idiosyncratic maps.
Unfinished Business tracks the course of feminist art making in Australia, proposing new ways of addressing feminism’s legacy and trajectory.
Summer often seems to herald an omnipresence of board-based activities. Taking this a step further is Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery’s latest exhibition which prompts the meeting of board-based subcultures with contemporary art.
What happens when the fragile relationship between the original and the copy is paired with our digital age? This is one of the central questions informing Shepparton Art Museum’s current exhibition.
Showing at Bendigo Art Gallery, Louiseann King’s landscape installation is a nuanced and carefully crafted gathering of objects that incorporate the found and the made.
Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Red Riding Hood, the Goose Girl, the Juniper Tree. Versions of these stories exist across cultures, their elements shifting subtly through a thousand retellings.
The women artists who visited Paris during this time were taking advantage of the progressive political and cultural changes being gained in the Western world.
Rosemary Laing creates elegant, conceptual photographs that explore cultural and historical notions of place.
Light Moves has suitably been itinerant since it set off for Darwin from the National Gallery of Australia at the end of 2015. The NGA travelling show is only now reaching its final venue, Wangaratta Art Gallery, recently added thanks to extra funds.
For decades, Janet Laurence has probed human relationships with ecology by merging science-based observation and investigation with a visual poetry of alchemy, transparency, beauty and loss.
The idea of a series of Sidney Nolan paintings hanging in a newsagent’s shop window seems rather quaint.
Showcasing the work of its founding members, the exhibition is packed with works from the 1980s up to the present day. The Boomalli Ten feels like a celebration not just of those 10 artists but more broadly of the Indigenous Australian art now flourishing in the post-colonial present.
