Kelly Gellatly is an experienced arts leader, advocate, curator and writer.
Ahead of a career-defining survey at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, icon of abstraction Lesley Dumbrell discusses with Kelly Gellatly the Women’s Art Movement, slowness in creating and viewing, and how she’s reflecting on 60 years of painting.
Elisabeth Cummings has painted dappled Australian landscapes for over 60 years. Ahead of her survey exhibition at NAS Gallery, she spoke influences, doubt, achievement, and the quiet moments that breathe life into art.
The brilliant, blue bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) of Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr have seen growing acclaim for not only their formal qualities, but how they speak of Country and contemporary politics. Munuŋgurr’s latest exhibition is now showing at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Melbourne Art Fair is back, presenting solo shows and works from 59 leading galleries and Indigenous-owned art centres from across the country. With so much to look at, we asked curator and writer Kelly Gellatly to tell us her ‘top 10 things to see’ at this year’s fair—for collectors and art lovers alike.
As Sydney galleries reopen this week, with Canberra and Melbourne not far behind, Australia’s most prominent museum leaders discuss the impacts and opportunities of the pandemic, and how they’re adapting to our new ‘Covid normal’.
How have Australia’s commercial galleries been faring through the last two years, and how are they feeling about the future? Mostly, it’s looking quite optimistic.
The confident, broad brushstrokes of Belem Lett’s new paintings seem to literally zoom around the picture plane, conveying a sense of speed and momentum as they slide across the works’ sleek aluminium surfaces.
A cast of different ‘Ronnies’ populate Ronnie van Hout’s art, appearing as the wizened face of inanimate objects (a banana, a sausage, a hammer), as well as the adult visage of child-like figures engaged in disconcertingly adult acts. Here, Ronnie tells us about five of his works.
In Part II of Mike Parr’s solo exhibition Half Way House, at Anna Schwartz Gallery, the artist’s earlier performances haunt the space creating disorientating echoes.
