Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

“We’re not using the word artists”: Talking with Biennale director José Roca and curator Anna Davis

From sustainability to non-living participants to waterways, this year’s 23rd Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of nature through 89 participants and over 330 artworks. Ahead of the opening this Saturday, we talked to artistic director José Roca and curatorial member Anna Davis, about the ideas and processes behind the Biennale.

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Dylan Mooney’s astoundingly intimate, beautiful scenes

“I never grew up with representation in those queer spaces, so creating my own works has really helped.” In stunning moments of joy and connection, Dylan Mooney’s art depicts the love between queer Indigenous people.

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Shuo Shu is a reminder of the stories we tell

The art of storytelling has been integral to Chinese culture and history for thousands of years—and White Rabbit Gallery is exploring how contemporary artists are keeping this timeless practice alive, especially in today’s digital age.

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Artists work with technology as a medium in Data Relations

For better or worse, data is intrinsic to modern life. In recent months with various data breach scandals, Australians have been reminded of its omnipresence— and in Data Relations at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, artists explore how data manifests both personally and societally.

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Deep listening is strengthening connection to Country

“They’re visualising Country as spirit”: First Nations artists Maddison Gibbs and salllvage have been practicing deep listening to express connection to Country, exhibiting sound and sculpture works at Cement Fondu.

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TextaQueen on punk mindsets and going beyond art institutions

“What I represent in my work really reflects my life, because my work really reflects what I am personally going through,” says TextaQueen. Known for their texta creations, ahead of TextaQueen’s show at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art they talk about skewering Bollywood archetypes via fictional film posters, starring queer and trans South Asian people.

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Do Ho Suh questions displacement and belonging

For over three decades Do Ho Suh has worked across forms like installation, sculpture and film to interrogate diaspora and concepts of belonging. Suh’s first Australian solo is now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art this summer.

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Sally Scales on the links between painting, life and family

A highly respected cultural and arts leader, Pitjantjatjara woman Sally Scales began painting only a few years ago—and the results are beguiling, leading to Scales being a current NATSIAA finalist at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

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“Disorientation and illusion”: Anna Carey on nostalgia and fantasy

Madame Mystery is not a real person, but you can text her to learn your fortune. And she’s a key character in Anna Carey’s latest miniature photographs at Artereal Gallery.

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Jessica Loughlin on the virtues of stillness

Over the last 20 years, Jessica Loughlin has explored the idea of stillness through glass, creating moments for the viewer to pause and simply look. Of Light showcases Loughlin’s career as JamFactory’s Icon for 2022.

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Sentimental to confronting: Sheree Dohnt’s depictions of motherhood

“Media puts an expectation on mums to always be positive”: Sheree Dohnt’s paintings at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery show the joys and challenges of motherhood, from measuring success to what women miss about life before children.

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Susan Jacobs on the possibilities of science and art

“For me, it’s about wonder and not knowing, and the undoing of trying to solve something,” says Susan Jacobs. The Sydney-born, London-based artist is having her largest show to date at Buxton Contemporary, where romance may be found in the clinical—and detritus becomes precious.

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