Neha Kale

Neha Kale is a writer, journalist and critic who has been writing about art and culture for the last ten years. Her work features in publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, SBS, The Saturday Paper, Art Review Asia and The Guardian and she is the former editor of VAULT.

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Women love the art world, but does the art world love women?

Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?

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Untangling the root of the matter

In Hair Pieces at Heide Museum of Modern Art, hair symbolises the burden of gendered labour—while speaking to how bodies are subject to wider tensions between freedom and control.

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Do we all have status anxiety?

A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world?

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First Nations artists share their sun stories

For the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Paris-based Fondation Cartier has commissioned 14 new works by Indigenous artists across the globe, curated by renowned Kuku Yalanji artist, Tony Albert.

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The women raised by wolves

From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art reveals.

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The Journey Down: The painted car travelling throughout Western Australia

A 1975 Mazda ute is embarking on a 3,200-kilometre trek from Kununurra, in the Kimberley, to Perth’s WA Museum Boola Bardip. Painted by Warmun artists, and transformed into a sound sculpture, what’s the story behind this car?

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Can art resist the carceral state?

Resisting the cold bureaucratisation of their lives, a group of women are questioning their interactions with the prison-industrial complex by reclaiming their own humanity—as showing at the Institute of Modern Art.

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Okkoota is exploding colonial structures from within

“I think the artist’s role can be to create these different relationships between people who don’t normally feel they can talk to each other,” says Eugenia Lim, an artist in Okkoota. Meaning gathering, assembly or alliance, Okkoota finds a sense of community in disparate histories at Melbourne’s Arts House.

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Nathan Beard on the puzzlement of personhood

With works exploring his Thai-Australian heritage, Nathan Beard’s latest solo show at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art continues his nuanced understanding of identity as fluid and permeable.

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Hannah Brontë on creating a world to live in

“What is the dream in terms of what I can create?” asks Hannah Brontë. An artist and DJ, Brontë is using art to imagine a freer society with the spirit of true collectivity, with a new solo show at UTS Gallery.

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Daniel Boyd’s studio are where fictions are cracked open and remade

“If you don’t fit within a canon—you obviously have to question it, expand it.” With a major solo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, we stepped inside Daniel Boyd’s sprawling Marrickville warehouse, where Boyd first begins challenging his viewers’ perception of the world.

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The Indigenous collectives central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney

Central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is a focus on collectives coming together. We look at the stories and art behind three Indigenous collectives in rīvus: Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre and Casino Wake Up Time from Australia, and New Zealand’s Mata Aho Collective.

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Neha Kale

Neha Kale's Articles

Women love the art world, but does the art world love women?

Untangling the root of the matter

Do we all have status anxiety?

First Nations artists share their sun stories

The women raised by wolves

The Journey Down: The painted car travelling throughout Western Australia

Can art resist the carceral state?

Okkoota is exploding colonial structures from within

Nathan Beard on the puzzlement of personhood

Hannah Brontë on creating a world to live in

Daniel Boyd’s studio are where fictions are cracked open and remade

The Indigenous collectives central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney

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