Dug and Digging With is the result of a 12-month collaboration between emerging curators Katie Barber and Stan Mahoney and seven visual artists, writers and theorists whose practices are process-based and research-driven.
Maria Kontis uses drawing to change the past, to tell her own stories.
At the heart of this exhibition are three figurative works made in 2014. These were also key to his survey exhibition at Brisbane’s QUT Art Museum in 2015, and they reflect his activism and the ongoing trauma of the anti-communist purges in Indonesia in 1965.
While Robert Hannaford is well known for his portraiture – he’s a frequent Archibald finalist – it’s only part of the picture. His oeuvre also includes sculptures, landscapes, still-lifes and nudes.
In the newly minted Museum of Perth, WA artist Sioux Tempestt reinterprets Perth’s architectural history, its grime and gleam, truth and invention, for her new exhibition Chronicle.
Dark Matter is a solo show by artist Julia Davis which explores the effects of time in relation to the body and the material world.
It’s Our Thing is inspired by some of Australia’s founding hip-hop crews and artists who worked in and around Blacktown in the 1990s.
From Goethean science, mapping energy fields, to analysing the success of a beetroot crop, Smuts- Kennedy is rigorous in her inquiries.
Anthes and Gallo ask the public to donate materials, any materials, be it a bottle cap that they found on the street, a cup of coffee or a once-cherished, now disused, record player.
“I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, ‘That’s a pretty little thing,’ after I had finished a picture.”
Rather than throwing everything into a stack and seeing if it sticks, Gupta builds his stacks in a deliberate, loaded manner whereby the process says as much as the result.
A touring retrospective of Bella Kelly’s work at John Curtin Gallery.
