Briony Downes is an arts writer based in Hobart. She has worked in the arts industry for over 20 years as a writer, actor, gallery assistant, art theory tutor and fine art framer. Most recently, she spent time studying Art History through Oxford University.
Recently Withey’s practice has focused on the environment and how the human presence effects it.
Five days before the world premiere of Soda_Jerk’s new film-based work, TERROR NULLIUS, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust withdrew its support of the project and requested not to be included in any promotional material surrounding the event.
The Australia Council has announced artist Angelica Mesiti and curator Juliana Engberg as the Australian representatives for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
Dreams and the subconscious are themes Joel Crosswell returns to often. His drawings and sculptures reference biographical events with a dreamlike sensibility where abstract elements of the natural world filter through his images.
Landing in Bendigo following a lengthy tour of Japan, Marimekko: Design icon 1951–2018, documents the 60-year story of the seminal Finnish label.
The Corsini Collection narrates an influential Florentine family’s story from the Renaissance through to its astonishing modern history.
Phillip England is a former population geneticist with the CSIRO. He took up photography five years ago and most of his images are produced with a large bellows camera.
Coinciding with QUT Art Museum’s inaugural holiday portraiture program, Draw It. Code It., Portray and Play is an exhibition of diverse figurative work focused on people and faces.
Ralph Kenke and Elmar Trefz (Kenke+Trefz) have won the National Portrait Gallery’s 2017 Digital Portraiture Award with their mixed media installation, Selfie Factory.
Philosophically speaking, the real is unchangeable, authentic truth. Hyper Real at the National Gallery of Australia challenges that assumption.
Tasmanian weather patterns and their seasonal effects on the landscape are subjects Philip Wolfhagen knows well.
In gardening and landscape design circles, Edna Walling (1895-1973) is considered royalty.
