Andrew Stephens is an independent visual arts writer based in Melbourne. He has worked as a journalist, editor and curator, and has degrees in fine art and art history.
From changing light bulbs to ending fossil fuel sponsorships, major Australian galleries and museums are attempting paths towards sustainability—but is this enough?
Angus Gardner’s new works at Gallery 9 are both sculptures and paintings. He’s long been interested in transitional zones, flowing between mediums without distinction.
Across rhinestone-encrusted objects to multi-channel videos, Chantal Fraser’s (literally) dazzling art at Griffith University Art Museum reimagines the workings of power.
An Australian-born artist of South African and Mauritian descent, Newell Harry is creating a web of ideas in his largest solo project to date at Murray Art Museum Albury.
Known for his photographic explorations of history, culture, and family, Michael Cook’s latest images showing at Jan Murphy Gallery tell the story of a travelling family—and how they begin to question everything around them.
The South African-born, Stockholm-based artist has been travelling the world recording the prayers of various faith groups and exhibiting the results—now it’s the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s turn.
The last few years have been characterised by grief and loss, alongside an unwavering hope for a flourishing future—it’s a dichotomy many artists are trying to capture, which Sam Jinks does exquisitely in his latest show at Sullivan+Strumpf Melbourne.
From climate change to the simple respite of a frosty ice cream on a boiling summer day, Swelter at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery shows how artists filter this country’s extreme heat.
Gail Mabo’s latest, poignant exhibition tells the story of her mother and father, Dr Bonita Mabo and land rights activist Eddie Mabo, alongside recollections of childhood.
From her feminist prints and posters of the 1970s to her later landscape paintings, Mandy Martin’s (1952-2021) retrospective at Geelong Gallery shows her long-term fight for the Australian environment.
Teo Treloar has lately been collecting and illustrating editions of Albert Camus’s The Plague—a novel about, you guessed it, plagues. Now, Treloar’s stunningly detailed drawings are showing at Grafton Regional Gallery.
From being a carpenter on the Wollongong waterfront to working at Bunnings and then becoming a successful artist, it’s little wonder Dan Moynihan’s practice reveals a love of materials, alongside a good dose of humour—as his new show at Tolarno illustrates.
