Rebecca Shanahan is a Sydney-based artist working in photography, video, performance, textiles, and installation. In 2018 she completed a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Rebecca has exhibited in more than 20 group and solo exhibitions and is also a lecturer at UNSW Art & Design.
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland-based artist John Vea’s show at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is both provocative and elegant.
In the third article in an Art Guide Australia series on textiles, Rebecca Shanahan notes the influence of textile techniques on both other mediums and broader culture by delving into the group show Exploded Textiles at Tamworth Regional Gallery.
In the second article from an Art Guide Australia series on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan looks at two exhibitions featuring Indigenous artists.
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles which turn the spotlight on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan examines the rise of interest in weaving by taking a close look at the work of Broken Hill-based artist Blake Griffiths.
We are living in urgent times courtesy of the climate crisis, with people from Pacific islands suffering more acutely than most.
The Housing Question—an expansive show by artists Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys—examines the multiple public and private dimensions of housing.
It’s a big jump from Australia to an island in the Baltic Sea. During 2017 and 2018 the London-based Australian artist Sam Smith visited the Swedish island of Gotland as part of an artist exchange organised by Western Australia’s International Art Space.
In Ian Tully’s solo exhibition, a farmer prepares for the inevitable move to Mars.
Prima Materia considers the transformation of matter—from older ideas around alchemy and mysticism to contemporary issues of dispossession and environmental change.
Keg de Souza’s wildly colourful installation at Griffith University Art Museum, Common Knowledge and Learning Curves, occupies multiple registers.
Penelope Cain’s Interregnum, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, is concerned with the past, present and future of coal, and more broadly the use and misuse of power.
Nothing is what it used to be in the group show Just Not Australian. This is probably just as well, since the cultural artefacts that form much of the show’s raw material are not always pretty.
