Sally Gearon is assistant editor at Art Guide Australia. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she has a background in art history and book publishing.
The paintings of Ethel Carrick—whose legacy is being celebrated via a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia—offer distinctive and poignant lessons in seeing the world.
For over four decades, Tony Clark’s painting practice has merged a deep appreciation for art history with a desire to push beyond the traditional confines of prescribed mediums. His latest exhibition at Buxton Contemporary focuses on sculpture—or the idea of it.
From Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin to Lindy Lee and Paul Knight, an exhibition at Ipswich Art Gallery uses the expanded field of abstraction to encourage deliberate and slow looking.
In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place.
Helen Mueller has been printmaking for 25 years, but moving to Hobart four years ago shifted her focus to the local natural environment. Now her delicate prints, made with materials foraged from the forest floor, are showing at Handmark Gallery.
“We can communicate with our hands when we craft something”: This year’s Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, IOTA24, delivers craft and culture across Western Australian art galleries.
After six months on the long-abandoned third-floor of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, TIME • RONE has found its way to Perth, inside the historical Centenary Galleries—a wing of the Art Gallery of Western Australia that has been closed for over 20 years.
The annual South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival is a much-beloved, month-long celebration of contemporary art and artists across South Australia—and this year’s feature artist is Julia Robinson.
Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With showings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Rockhampton Museum of Art, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.
