Louise Martin-Chew is a freelance writer and PhD candidate at the University of Queensland (Creative Writing) where she is working on artist biography. Her most recent book is Linde Ivimey, published by UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2012.
Elizabeth Willing intersects her artistic practice with a love of food in Kitchen Studio, an ambitious project showing at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival.
In Lands of Light, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery focuses on Lloyd Rees’s (1895-1988) late paintings inspired by the Tasmanian landscape, while also contextualising them within his earlier work.
Yolŋu musician and artist Wurrandan Marawili is embracing Gunybi Ganambarr’s ‘Found’ movement in a series of etched aluminium artworks, now showing at Outstation Gallery.
In the most significant exhibition of his career to date at Pinnacles Gallery, Danish Quapoor explores the contradictory emotions of grief while navigating complex shifts in identity and belonging.
Now showing at Sullivan+Strumpf Melbourne, the second solo exhibition from Dhopiya Yuŋupingu draws on the shared histories between the Yolŋu and the Macassans.
“It’s a relationship I’m speaking about, a relationship with environment, place, my grandmother and family,” says Christopher Bassi. With inspiration vested in a matrilineal connection to Queensland’s far north, the sea, and the tropics, Bassi practises from a light-filled studio in Brisbane’s West End.
Since their radical rise in the 1970s, posters have been used by artists and activists for feminist, political, environmental and cultural issues. As an exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery attests, today may be no different.
Nick Modrzewski combines his art practice with a similarly intense career in the law. His new paintings at COMA gallery explore the way human bodies fit (or don’t) within the institutional structures that guide our societies.
Alice Lang’s art packs a feminist punch. Flowah Powah is her most significant solo exhibition in Australia to date, showing at QUT Art Museum.
“It’s really made me reconsider the way I work.” Lisa Sammut’s 10-decade practice spans sculpture, light, video, installation… and now glass. Her beguiling new creations are showing at Canberra Glassworks.
“You can’t overestimate watching films in Yolŋu language about you, your culture, your language and your life. It is epic.” Based in North East Arnhem Land, The Mulka Project is centred on sustaining Yolŋu cultural knowledge—and now their exquisite 60-metre projection will grace the National Gallery of Australia.
