Nothing is what it used to be in the group show Just Not Australian. This is probably just as well, since the cultural artefacts that form much of the show’s raw material are not always pretty.
An exhibition with a focus on how Tasmanian Aboriginals were depicted by colonial-era artists during the time of The Black War in the 1800s, The National Picture reveals the lasting impact visual art can have on our understanding of history.
To enter Toby Ziegler’s solo exhibition at Mona, Your Shadow Rising, visitors must draw back a curtain and step into the gallery space.
Open Window, an exhibition by the artist collective Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn at West Space in Melbourne, consisted of altered interior architecture, sculptures and wall works.
The latest exhibition at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, combines key moments in Patricia Piccinini’s oeuvre, shown among the all-consuming and devastating emotions in Joy Hester’s works on paper.
In her solo show Extra, Adrienne Doig stitched herself into reproductions of the Bayeux Tapestry. This cheeky act of historical revision highlights the fact that in all propaganda, as in all histories, the officially sanctioned version is never the whole story.
Despite the health risks associated with smoking, the act has played a shifting emblematic role across cultural history.
Her/e, an exhibition by Cate Consandine at Sarah Scout Presents in Melbourne, was riddled with dense ambiguous zones within both landscape and psychological-scapes.
Can you have too much of a good thing? William Kentridge seems determined to find out in his survey show, William Kentridge: that which we do not remember, at Art Gallery of New South Wales.
In Hito Steyerl’s immersive video installation Factory of the Sun, the gallery’s dark walls, floor and ceiling are illuminated by a grid, lines glowing a cold blue.
Without seeds we would starve and The Last Seed was inspired by the threat posed by climate change to the so-called ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Norway.
In the group show Human non Human, the question of what it is to be human is tackled by five artists who actively engage with technology and/or the tropes of science.
