Toby Fehily is a freelance writer and the former editor of Art Guide Australia. His work has appeared in Guardian Australia, The Lifted Brow, Smith Journal, Four&Sons and on ABC Radio National. He was the recipient of a 2015 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
For its first exhibition, Science Gallery Melbourne is filling the Frank Tate Building with blood. Or, more actually, artworks which respond to the red stuff.
The Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize had its genesis in the Redlands highschool gym and has emerged as a heavyweight, with a month-long exhibition held each year at the National Art School in Sydney.
The honeymoon was already over at The Honeymoon Suite, with wandering hands during its inaugural show, Rose coloured glass.
Practice makes perfect, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Kate Rohde has spent the past 10 years or so honing what she has described as a “hyperactive” practice.
It is the meditative, vulnerable and unforced qualities (and not necessarily Japan) that define Koji Ryui’s abstract sculptural works.
Rather than try to encapsulate more than 60 years in a survey show, the gallery is focusing on one decade of his practice, from Bigger Trees Near Warter to now.
As part of this year’s Melbourne Festival, Shiota will create a new body of work for a major solo exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Toby Fehily spoke to Terstappen about her life, her exhibition and the unique role of art in spreading awareness about animals.
For an artist who occupies herself with ideas surrounding training and submission, Lou Hubbard can’t quite rein in time.
Justine Varga’s photographs capture the briefest moments. In Memoire she seizes, stretches and accumulates that instant.
For the first major survey of contemporary Australian painting in a decade, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art took an unexpected curatorial cue.
Unafraid to fall, fail or question, Elizabeth Newman finds a rougher, unflinchingly honest edge to her paintings.
