The question was posed to four Melbourne curators, ‘what are you currently excited about in the Melbourne art scene?’
Word, a group exhibition of 28 artists at Hugo Michell Gallery in Adelaide, is an in-house curated showcase of text-based work by Australian artists.
“I looked for Indigenous artists who are really creating a dialogue around massacres and histories in both historical and in contemporary contexts who could deepen and expand the conversation around the event.”
Shane Cotton, a New Zealand artist of Pakeha (white New Zealander) and Mãori descent is referred to as a ‘history painter’.
“Dooralong is just a valley populated by horses, cows and trees, but it’s very beautiful to me,” says Belynda Henry of her home in New South Wales.
The second Mordant Family VR commission has been awarded to Joan Ross who will realise an ambitious project in the style of a video game for ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).
The group exhibition and performance program Into my Arms at ACE Open contemplates ‘the embrace’ in performance, installation and a series of new commissions.
To coincide with The Field Revisited at NGV Melbourne, local Melbourne galleries have programmed complimentary shows. Most explore the influence of The Field on contemporary art practice, especially abstract art made today, often infused with colour that pops.
The exhibition WROL (Without Rule of Law), at Melbourne’s Bus Projects, focused on preppers who fetishise and invest in the collapse of civilisation.
The natural world is recast through the lens of a lover, not a fighter, in Sensual Nature.
Lee Grant has been awarded the National Photographic Portrait Prize for her black-and-white portrait Charlie, and Filomena Rizzo was highly commended for the photograph of her daughter, My Olivia.
Cement Fondu, a new multi-disciplinary gallery, has opened in Sydney. Its inaugural exhibition Suburbia celebrates and unpacks the peripheries of the city.
