Nadiah Abdulrahim is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. She graduated with a BFA in Photography from the University of Tasmania before turning her attention to editing and publishing. Her writing has appeared in Meanjin, VAULT and Composite Journal.
Throughout her career Jasmine Targett has worked with esteemed researchers and organisations, including NASA, and used their research and technology in her work.
Gallery director Steven Joyce says the contrast between Garland’s black-and-white photographs and Usmiani’s colourful work will present well visually. “They’re showing jointly and will feed off each other,” he says.
For 20 years, Joanna Logue painted the landscape she knew best – the one right outside her relatively isolated studio in Oberon, inland over the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
Ben Howe’s paintings become less clear as you move closer towards them. “I suppose my work sits within a broader definition of hyperrealism: that it’s a perfect rendition of something that never existed,” he says.
Australian Muslim Artists showcases the diversity of the contemporary Muslim experience in Australia, and in the current political and media climate, that is something that should be celebrated.
Before even entering the exhibition space where Shireen Taweel’s tracing transcendence was held, the adhan – the Islamic call to prayer – could be heard resonating throughout the cavernous building.
Eavesdropping, curated by Joel Stern of Liquid Architecture and Dr James Parker of the Melbourne Law School, tackles some big issues: technology, surveillance, privacy, detention, migration, and more.
Diane Arbus: American Portraits, a National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition currently showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, features 36 of the photographer’s works created during the last decade of her career, 1961 to 1971.
Born in Johannesburg in 1972, Breitz, who now lives and works in Berlin, is renowned for her anthropological studies of the cult of celebrity, pop culture, the frame of identity, and representation.
Kylie Stillman’s work addresses big issues, such as the environment, in an intricate, delicate way. Her work is an invitation to pause, interact and reflect on our relationship with nature.
Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia presents post-traditional performance practice that comments on the complex history and current affairs of the region.
Erewhon is an exhibition informed by history, literature and contemporary anxiety over terror, politics, migration and cultural identity.
