Sally Gearon is assistant editor at Art Guide Australia. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she has a background in art history and book publishing.
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.
“I want to ignite that childlike sensibility.” Ariel Ruby conjures a sense of wondrous play in her new show at Penny Contemporary.
Horror is where the marginalised can see themselves—as a horror-themed exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art reveals.
The fourth Fremantle Biennale looks toward the ocean and beyond, making use of the city’s varied environments and shared histories. The program features over 70 events and 80 artists, including an immersive installation by Taloi Havini.
At the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), two international artists—Jónsi of Sigur Rós and Jean-Luc Moulène—are each centering the sensory experiences of nature, from local materials to volcanic eruption.
“I see my work as a research project,” says Agneta Ekholm. “I have a desire to reach into the unknown with each new painting.” Step inside her large-scale abstract paintings at Flinders Lane Gallery.
Charlotte Haywood’s new exhibition at Northsite Contemporary Arts is a sensory exploration of the relationship between all living things. “It is about needing to reframe our relationship with the living planet, and each other.”
Western Australia has a long history of abstraction in art. Now, four female abstract artists from WA are placing their work in conversation, hosted in the Albany Town Hall.
Congratulations to Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan, who has won the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize for her painting Ngayuku Ngura (My Country). “I paint my Country, the beautiful and powerful Yankunytjatjara Country that I live on and that will always be a part of me,” says Cullinan.
Simone Douglas’s artworks can sometimes take months. She creates art that speaks to time and place, as shown in her Artereal Gallery exhibition, which captures her slowly disappearing ice sculpture, Ice Boat.
The intimacy, suffering and art between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is infamous. While the personal reverberates in their paintings, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia places their art not only alongside each other, but within a wider Mexican modernist movement.
View, in pictures, the largest representation of art from First Peoples ever to be assembled, from Emily Kame Kngwarreye to Tommy Watson—now showing at the LUME Melbourne.
