Sally Gearon is assistant editor at Art Guide Australia. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she has a background in art history and book publishing.
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.
The lure of ancient Egypt still holds for many, as the National Gallery of Victoria centres its winter exhibition on one figure: the pharaoh.
The Australian art world is in mourning, having lost two art icons in one week. Following the recent passing of Destiny Deacon is the loss of contemporary photographer Rosemary Laing, one of Australia’s most revered photographic artists.
In her latest collection of works, now showing at Tactile Arts, Hunnah James incorporates shedded discards from local paperbarks trees into her watercolour paintings of native flora and fauna.
A new show at Craft Victoria asks six creatives—artists, makers, designers—to respond to aluminium as a material. All the aluminium used is recycled, highlighting the space’s new Conscious Craft initiative.
Parrtjima—the Northern Territory’s annual festival of lights at the Alice Springs Desert Park—is entering its ninth year, and this time the immersive festival’s focus is interconnectedness.
Anne Zahalka’s retrospective at the Museum of Australian Photography offers the chance to see 40 years of her revered photographs. In our interview she talks about reflecting on her work, the necessity of humour, and making art in times of political and climate crises.
In her latest exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery, Kathrin Longhurst highlights the resilience of women through paintings that subvert the traditional male gaze, and instead aim to empower.
The first Torres Strait Islander artist to show in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden, Janet Fieldhouse gifts us her deep affinity for sculpture.
Tania Ferrier’s new exhibition at Gallery Central interrogates body autonomy through a series of collaborations with photographers, fashion designers, models—and even a feminist clown.
Currently in full swing, this year’s Sydney Festival features scores of artists and events—all centered around the harbour, the event is looking towards the sea.
