Sally Gearon is assistant editor at Art Guide Australia. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she has a background in art history and book publishing.
Working widely across print mediums, Barbara Hanrahan’s (1939-1991) art explores beauty, domesticity and the afterlife, balancing the ethereal and the everyday. Now, her work is touring throughout South Australia.
With recent cultural reckonings, it’s clear audiences want to see strong women on screen. That is exactly what ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess is delivering, celebrating the defiant disruptors and headstrong heroines of film.
Leisa Shelton has been making performance art for over 30 years, in which she captures viewers’ responses to artists and artworks across the world. Now, five of her major works are showing at Abbotsford Convent.
With young creators showing their final high school art across the country, we spoke to potential artists about everything from climate change to diversity to career viability in the arts. And we learnt that for many, it’s less about art as a career, and more about incorporating creativity into whatever they do.
Sophie Lampert’s soft, sculptural works explore the lives and atypical vocations of women throughout history, and are on display at Orange Regional Gallery.
The male gaze has infiltrated art history—and life in general. Now, seven women artists at MARS Gallery are centring their own perspective in A Female Gaze.
