Briony Downes

The Hermannsburg Potters tell stories of Country through clay

Using a hand coil pinch technique, the pots created by the Hermannsburg Potters of Western Arrarnta in Central Australia illustrate the lived histories of the artists and their surrounding Country. Their latest creations are now showing at Bett Gallery in Hobart.

Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Wanda Gillespie’s handcrafted sculptures embody ideas of the sacred. 

Her latest exhibition, Of Counting and Devotion, is now showing at Craft Victoria’s Vitrine Gallery.

Can art make the world a better place?

When times are hard, we often turn to art to remind ourselves that beauty and hope persist. An exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury brings together nine artists from varied disciplines to examine how art can be used as an agent for good.

Shedding light with Roberta Joy Rich

For La Trobe University’s Biannual Façade Commission, artist Roberta Joy Rich brings the dark corners of archival material into the light. On the glass frontage of the La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo, Rich has created a work using sound, image and text to explore the South African diaspora.

Janine Combes’s material stories

In her latest exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Janine Combes uses her background as a jewellery maker to create a body of work inspired by abandoned towns once marked for settlement in Tasmania.

The immersive storytelling of Leah King-Smith

rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.

The art of caring for our environment

A Delicate Terrain, a new exhibition of works drawn from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, looks at our relationship with the environment through the lens of contemporary art.