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Jeff Gibson navigates our generations of screens

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Loss and hope: How Lismore’s arts community is recovering from the floods

When the recent floods hit Lismore in February, artist Claudie Frock endured a terrifying night. She was lucky to survive after she, her partner and dog were rescued by the SES. Everything Frock knew was engulfed in floods: her home, her studio/gallery and her workplace at Lismore Regional Gallery. Now, amid extreme disaster recovery, we speak to Lismore arts locals about where to next.

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Stefanie Schulte on painting music and Vivaldi’s seasons

Working in her Canberra studio, German-born artist Stefanie Schulte listens to music. Many artists do that while working, but Schulte’s listening is different: she sees music as much as she hears it, and that faculty is apparent in her latest suite of paintings, Vivaldi’s Seasons at ANCA.

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Major Helmut Newton show headlines PHOTO 2022

While the overarching theme of the upcoming PHOTO 2022 Festival of Photography is expansive—“being human”—the headline Helmut Newton exhibition is an intimate look at the artist’s life and trajectory, who’s known for his elegant 1950s fashion images.

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Ezz Monem is in search of Mohamed

In Search of Mohamed at This Is No Fantasy includes multichannel video and photography works that explore the tensions between “the reverent and the profane”.

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Ackroyd and Harvey’s grass portraits are works of activism

The acclaimed UK duo Ackroyd & Harvey are two of the most innovative artists working in environmental art today—and for the current Biennale of Sydney, they’ve bought their grass works to our shores, advocating for a sustainable future.

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A delicate site: Into Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra’s art

Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra’s three-metre tall larrakitj (memorial poles) are perfect for the soaring interiors of Michael Reid’s new Chippendale gallery, where fifteen of the impressively patterned larrakitj showcase Wunuŋmurra’s spiralling floral motifs and her rigorous geometry.

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Who’s Afraid of Public Space? is an art event for our times

With its lens aimed at the complexities of how we inhabit and perceive public space, ACCA’s new offering stretches from the gallery to the Melbourne suburbs, with a truly incredible program spanning exhibitions, performances, talks, meeting spaces and installations.

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Perth centres First Nations art as resistance

Contemplating First Nations art as a tool of resistance and as offering alternative versions of Australian history, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia at AGWA covers enormous cultural territory, with more than 80 artists.

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The new Shepparton Art Museum is opening, and changing how we think of regional galleries

Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is reopening with a new $50m building, and a new identity. With eight exhibitions lined up, alongside unveiling its ceramic workshop, outdoor amphitheatre and tourist centre, its aiming to be a community hub as much as a gallery.

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Dennis Golding’s superhero cape

Going from a young Batman to mentoring children in cape-making workshops, Dennis Golding’s art is about Indigenous empowerment, and is now showing at Carriageworks, Cement Fondu and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

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Louise Tuckwell and her newest work Cuboids

Having made extraordinary obelisk-shaped forms for her last exhibition, Louise Tuckwell—known for her hard-edge paintings—found herself exploring an exciting space: paintings you can walk around.