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.
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.
Known for his dynamic paintings created from reused materials, Bruce Reynolds is now making award-winning sculptures. It’s a busy time for Reynolds, with a survey exhibition at Brisbane’s Artisan gallery and work also showing across Canberra, Sydney and Rockhampton.
In 1966 in the Northern Territory, 200 Gurindji workers pushed forward the land rights movement in Australia. Known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the strike protested Aboriginal land dispossession and worker exploitation. Now, Still in My Mind at ANU Drill Hall Gallery examines this significant moment.
Departing from her training in figurative painting, Lucy Turnbull’s Riverside exhibition at Sauerbier House embraces how conversations with the local community give new artistic expression.
Famous for her exquisite large-scale installations created from thousands of delicate red and black threads, Chiharu Shiota’s largest survey show to date is showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.
Paul Gundry’s landscapes hover close to the ground, capturing the light, atmospherics, and the imaginary qualities available within the Tasmanian landscape—as shown in his latest exhibition at Colville Gallery.
With work probing the socio-cultural conditions which define our age, Karla Marchesi’s latest paintings at Jan Manton Gallery are a bright contrast of floral forms, both in tone and colour.
