Review
Toby Ziegler: Your Shadow Rising
To enter Toby Ziegler’s solo exhibition at Mona, Your Shadow Rising, visitors must draw back a curtain and step into the gallery space.
Review
Open Window
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.
Zara Sigglekow
Review
Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester: Through Love…
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.
Review
Extra
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.
Tracey Clement
Review
Killing Time
Despite the health risks associated with smoking, the act has played a shifting emblematic role across cultural history.
Zara Sigglekow
Review
Cate Consandine
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.
Zara Sigglekow
Preview, Review
William Kentridge: master of both quality and quantity
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.
Tracey Clement
Review
Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun
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.
Anna Dunnill
Review
Janet Tavener: The Last Seed
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.
Tracey Clement
Preview, Review
Human non Human
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.
Tracey Clement
Preview, Review
Perth’s new gallery: Cool Change Contemporary
Occupying warren-like apartments above Bon Marché Arcade in the Perth CBD, Cool Change has an already-evident agenda to contrast itself with the sobriety and commercial focus of neighbouring exhibition programs.
Sheridan Hart
Preview, Review
Islamic Museum of Australia showcases Australian Muslim Artists
Australian Muslim Artists showcases the diversity of the contemporary Muslim experience in Australia, and in the current political and media climate, that is something that should be celebrated.