Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Australian writer and critic based in Naarm/Melbourne.
An exhibition at QAGOMA is taking inspiration from Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, drawing from the gallery’s Indigenous Australian art collection to celebrate the connection between plants and Country.
Mai Nguyễn-Long’s latest exhibition at Wollongong Art Gallery takes influence from her Vietnamese heritage and living in a modern Australian setting—speaking to the trauma experienced by the diaspora.
Two years after Josh Muir’s untimely passing at the age of 30, the Koorie Heritage Trust celebrates his work and legacy in an exhibition co-curated by his mother and partner.
“It’s a call for the celebration of the multiplicity of perspectives, and the gathering of different viewpoints.” Ahead of the Biennale’s opening this weekend, we talk with long-time collaborators Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero about how this year’s Biennale is one of celebration, not fatalism.
The grassroots women’s art collective Womanifesto, which formed in Thailand in 1995, did not shut down with the rest of the world in 2020. Instead, it adapted, and now the works made by the Sydney contingent during that time are showing at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Dapeng Liu juxtaposes painted abstract landscapes with recreations of split-second frames from popular films, news and the internet in his new show at Art Atrium.
Adelaide’s annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art festival returns, and this year includes the first-ever survey exhibition by Vincent Namatjira, as well as artworks by over 1500 Indigenous artists.
Showing at UNSW Galleries, Renee So talks on her multidisciplinary practice, art history and museum collections—and how her work looks at “being a female, being Asian, being a mum, being an artist and living in the world”.
Justine Youssef’s art confronts histories of displacement, genocide and colonialism, alongside preserving the traditions of her Lebanese heritage—as her latest solo at UTS Gallery & Art Collection attests.
If you live in Melbourne, you’ve likely seen Olana Janfa’s art. An Ethiopian-Norwegian artist, Janfa’s vivid, playful, and sometimes pointed paintings give a range of insights, from African diaspora to family love–and they’re showing at the Immigration Museum.
The Brooklyn-based artist was the editor, model, stylist and photographer on a 2018 project, ‘Indigenous Woman Magazine’, now showing at Cairns Art Gallery.
Ceramicist James Lemon creates often irreverent, yet sublimely aesthetic, ceramic works. Ahead of his solo at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, and his showing in ‘Melbourne Now’, we visited his light-filled studio, talking about his process, insects and religion, faith and humour.
