Sheridan Hart is an artist and writer based in Perth. She recently completed a PhD at Curtin University in contemporary art and its relationship to geolocation and remote sensing. Sheridan has exhibited at The Daphne Collection, Paper Mountain, John Curtin Gallery and Turner Galleries.
Quilty aligns with a reflective period for the artist, as he considers how to pass on what he has learned to his children.
Post-humanism anticipates a future in which bodies are enhanced, replaced or surpassed, and in which the status of ‘person’ isn’t defined by species or carbon-based physicality.
Western Australian artist Jack Caddy’s Made from pillars of spit launches a tragi-comedic critique of what happens when saliva becomes transferable digital information. “How do we navigate this new field where it only takes your third cousin spitting in a tube for someone to identify you?”
Assembled from the Museum of Brisbane collection and significant loans, New Woman chronicles 100 years of female artists in Brisbane.
With Convergence II, Monika Lukowska and Melanie McKee endorse a kind of art practice in which studio endeavour and everyday life are conflated.
The term ‘visual art’ tends to preclude further ways of experiencing work but in Vis-Ability, careful research and curation have expanded the scope of ‘seeing’ art.
The Life Around brings together oil paintings by Perth-based artists Ellen Norrish and Ian Williams. Like hawk-eyed beachcombers, they inspect found social media posts, filter-edited photos, CGI objects and virtual environments, pocketing whatever intrigues them.
Love, Displaced functions just as well as a general survey of video artists with strong, idiomatic voices as it does as an exploration of compassion in contemporary culture.
Andrew Nicholls walked the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, partied in Venice, wore britches and white makeup in the piazze and hiked up aching-to-erupt volcanoes. Hyperkulturemia collects the artist’s forays into the romance and revelry of the tour.
Three decades after Ana Mendieta’s death, Connecting to the Earth brings the Cuban artist’s work to Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA), exploring what close communion with nature could look like in contemporary Australia.
Love and Desire at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) will bring 100 Pre-Raphaelite paintings, drawings and decorative objects to Canberra.
Desert River Sea plunges visitors into the complexity and aspirations of the Kimberley.
