Andrew Stephens

Seven new gallery spaces to visit this summer

As we move toward the end of 2022, another year of many changes and adjustments, one thing for certain is that Australia holds strong in celebrating art and culture. Here’s seven new gallery spaces to visit this summer.

Cressida Campbell on the subtle beauty of everyday scenes

“Even now, after doing it for 40 years, it’s an adventure and it’s terrifying,” says Cressida Campbell of her practice combining painting and printmaking techniques. Now, she has a major survey at the National Gallery of Australia.

The Big Building Boom: Why are millions being spent on arts buildings?

From The Fox: NGV Contemporary to the Sydney Modern Project, to major overhauls of regional art spaces, hundreds of millions of dollars are being funnelled into museum buildings. But are these new buildings being privileged over artists, or is this the future investment we need?

Jeff Gibson navigates our generations of screens

From the suburbs of Brisbane to living in New York as the managing editor at ‘Artforum’, the art of Jeff Gibson is a humourous, seductive look at our obsessions with screens—from television to online shopping to Instagram. His work is now showing at Griffith Art Museum.

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.

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.