Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry and criticism. Autumn is the founding editor of Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal, interviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review and assistant editor at Art Guide Australia.
Natalya Hughes’s art holds a piercing gaze on the historically male-dominated fields of art and psychoanalysis, claiming the necessary space for women’s representation.
The Art Gallery of Western Australia pays tribute to The Antipodean Manifesto and the collective artists who wrote it, which included the likes of Arthur Boyd, John Brack and Clifton Pugh.
Although Mia Boe only began painting full-time three years ago, her startling scenes of elongated figures in landscapes, politically motivated for speaking to colonial histories, are now exhibiting across the National Portrait Gallery to the National Gallery of Victoria.
In 1966, American pop artist Robert Indiana created Love, an iconic image in which the word “love” appears in red letters on a blue and green background. Since then, it’s been reproduced ad nauseam in painting, print and sculpture. Enter Melbourne-based artist Clare Longley, who repositions such romanticised imagery from a queer perspective.
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework…” wrote French feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Adelaide-based artist Zoe Freney mentions this quote when talking about Work from Home at Newmarch Gallery.
Ochre Painters of the Kimberley at Japingka Aboriginal Art features paintings from the likes of Jack Britten, Shirley Purdie, Queenie McKenzie and Rover Thomas—and many works have never been publicly displayed until now.
Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins creates evocative portraits and landscape paintings exploring being a First Nations person in contemporary Australia. Her latest work Stockwoman is gracing the walls of Carriageworks for Sydney Festival, capturing her great-grandmother Hetty Perkins.
A renowned Australian painter, the many sides of Peter Booth have been unfolding since the 1960s in works of dark narrative. Now, a new survey at TarraWarra Museum of Art traces what Booth tells us about humanity.
One of the most significant designers of his generation, Alexander McQueen’s subversive designs pushed the boundaries of fashion—and the National Gallery of Victoria is revealing the theatrical breadth of his work in their major summer exhibition.
Tim Price’s latest series of paintings at Penny Contemporary playfully evoke the strange and surprising moments in life.
Nicola Scott’s work is informed by tensions between the materiality and history of abstract painting, alongside contemporary digital and virtual spaces. Her current exhibition at Onespace Gallery urges audiences to question the collision between the organic and synthetic.
Sunrise Road in Sydney’s Palm Beach was where the acclaimed English-Australian artist Bruce Munro was living when he began creating in the 1980s. Now, Munro is returning to the beginning with From Sunrise Road at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
