Sally Gearon is assistant editor at Art Guide Australia. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she has a background in art history and book publishing.
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.
How can an individual make themselves truly seen and heard amidst a stratified society? It’s a question asked by 28 contemporary Chinese artists in I Am the People at White Rabbit Gallery.
The Jewish Museum of Australia is exploring the lesser-known areas of Marc Chagall’s prolific and varied career: his printmaking, poetry, publishing, and public art, while also asking contemporary artist Yvette Coppersmith to respond with her own works.
Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s practice spans painting, costume and performance,and he uses local waste and rented equipment to create installations that can be made from scratch at each new location. Having been awarded the 2023 Porter Street Commission, his large-scale participatory sculpture ROCKAMORA is now being shown at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.
Victoria’s flagship festival of music, food, art and culture is back, starting 7 June. With 185 events, here’s our recommendations of what to see—from Cate Blanchett as a tiger in a supermarket to First Nations artists connection to the spirit world.
