“Rembrandt and Vermeer are the artists everyone knows,” says Raissis. “But no doubt there’ll be lots of surprises, like the female painter Rachel Ruysch, whose floral still lifes are astonishing demonstrations of technical wizardry.”
Miranda Skoczek’s abstract paintings evoke old walls with layers of forms and shapes that emerge over time.
Curated by Andrew Varano, Remedial Works presents six artists who regulate and remediate, invoking an armoury of talismanic products and wellness strategies.
End of year graduate exhibitions are a heady mix of celebration and contemporary art perusing.
Bringing together artist run initiatives (ARI’s) from Australia and New Zealand, Hobiennale (HB17) aims to celebrate and strengthen their place in the art ecosystem, and add another dimension to Hobart’s art scene.
Standing in front of Leora Sibony’s Industrial Relations at Lismore Regional Gallery it is hard not to be reminded of some of the Dada-infused German art of the 1920s.
Bronze trees on a pallet, neon targets, stuffed birds, and contemporary daguerreotypes all appear in Not Niwe Not Nieuw Not Neu at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Juz Kitson’s latest exhibition, Shifting Manifestations at GAGPROJECTS, extends her ongoing exploration into both elegance and abjection.
With a practice steeped in controversy, Robert Mapplethorpe’s work is crisp, often confronting, and occasionally revelatory.
Community and place are the central focus of Home is where the heat is. Held at Canberra Glassworks, the exhibition celebrates this multi-functional centre’s 10th anniversary.
Simon Blau’s solo show, Faulty Narrative, can be read as a fruitful manifestation of contradictions and loss of control.
Gerhard Richter, the well known German painter, has created works that adhere to abstraction, realism and expressionism, but as a sum evade these definitions.
