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.
“It’s important we connect with how we look at things in the world.” Elisa Crossing paints images within images, layering visual references in her latest show at Nancy Sever Gallery.
Moving to New York in 1969, Virginia Cuppaidge is known for her internationally revered abstract paintings. She’s now living in Australia, unveiling a carefully restored, utterly luminous, six-metre work at this week’s Sydney Contemporary.
From quirky birthday cakes to knitting patterns, The Australian Women’s Weekly has a unique place in the Australian psyche. Now, the magazine’s memorabilia, covers and behind-the-scenes photographs are exhibiting at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Motherhood, domesticity, landscape, memory—these are just some of the experiences and memories Sally Anderson has captured in her two-decade painting practice, underpinned by a persistent blue, now showing at Edwina Corlette Gallery.
Nicola Moss’s new paintings at Arthouse Gallery, imbued with organic shapes, textures and colours, are inspired by the English gardens she visited during a trip to London last summer.
Why is clay suddenly everywhere in galleries? Intimately entwined in our everyday lives, there are currently multiple clay-centered shows happening across the country—dealing with everything from feminism to form.
Since the 1990s, American photographer Catherine Opie has been internationally renowned for capturing friends and family, queer domestic life, and defining political moments. Entwining identity and sexuality, kinship and community, Opie’s first Australian survey is at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Sonia Leber and David Chesworth recently travelled through the Northern Territory with a team of earth scientists, under the guidance of local Indigenous leaders—and they recorded and filmed what they saw.
After visiting archaeological museums in Syracuse, Adrienne Doig began creating doll-like, textile figures of herself reimagined as a goddess—which are now showing at Martin Browne Contemporary.
Hobart-based photographic artist Valerie Sparks creates visually immersive installations inspired by 19th century French scenic wallpaper and the work of female botanical artists, which are now showing at Bett Gallery.
With a poignant blend of traditional culture and contemporary aesthetics that’s seen his printmaking in the 2022 Biennale of Sydney and Tarnanthi Festival, Teho Ropeyarn’s latest work looks at his mother’s story—and is showing for The National.
Porcelain and sound waves do not immediately come to mind when thinking about textiles, yet these are the materials some artists are using to produce their textile-based work. Casting a wide net for Pliable Planes at Ballarat Art Gallery, co-curators Karen Hall and Catherine Woolley specifically looked for artists whose practice expanded the creative parameters of contemporary textiles.
