Andy Butler is an artist, writer and curator based in Narrm/Melbourne. His arts criticism has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and frieze.
From the dark matter that holds the universe together to the smallest of seeds, Sundari Carmody’s art connects the cosmos with the intimate, as a new exhibition at GAGPROJECTS shows.
Once called ‘Unaustralian’ by their own previous funders, Soda Jerk’s latest film at Samstag Museum of Art centres the moments that have defined the last six years: a pandemic, the Trump era, QAnon, the war in Ukraine and climate disaster.
In 2009 Megan Cope began a new series of works called After the flood. After recently losing her studio in the Lismore floods, the Quandamooka artist didn’t realise how prescient this title would be—and now she’s showing everywhere from Melbourne to Shepparton to Paris.
Although Karla Dickens’s home was spared in the recent Lismore floods, she’s attentively focused on the collective community of the town—and she’s also creating new art showing at Sullivan+Strumpf.
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
Living on a cattle farm south of Perth with his family, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah explores family, history and memory.
Through a classical Filipino dance form featuring long metal fingernails, artist Bhenji Ra explores the passing down of cultural knowledge.
Yhonnie Scarce creates works that not only have emotional depth and complexity, they are also tenderly monumental.
The late Pintupi artist Patrick Tjungurrayi’s paintings offer abstract representations of Country, ceremony, and ancestral and creation stories.
Melbourne artist Kevin Chin was on a residency in Yellowstone National Park in the US when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. In an increasingly partisan America he started on his latest series of paintings, Structural Equality.
Hoda Afshar trains her lens into dark, forbidden corners of the globe, undermining the structural power of the medium.
Family and national history are tied up for Phuong Ngo, who has amassed an archive tracing Vietnam’s tumultuous past.
