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The truth(s) of a life
Drawing upon the debated life of 18th-century French spy Chevalière d’Éon, Madison Bycroft’s new video at Samstag Museum looks at the unknowability of personhood.
Drawing upon the debated life of 18th-century French spy Chevalière d’Éon, Madison Bycroft’s new video at Samstag Museum looks at the unknowability of personhood.
In our latest Smartphone Snaps feature, painter Eleanor Louise Butt offers an intimate glimpse of her home and studio in the Dandenong Ranges during Victoria’s fifth lockdown.
While much of Salote Tawale’s work is humorous on the surface, the artist is mining the tensions surrounding representation, colonialism, and her own cultural and personal histories—and is doing so with two solos at PICA and MAMA.
After years working overseas as a curator and gallery director, Suzanne Cotter will return home to Australia as the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney.
Radical for 1940s Australia, the cover designs of arts magazine A Comment are compelling examples of sparse modernism, and are now showing at the National Gallery of Australia for Know My Name. But who is the woman behind them?
Arthur Boyd’s landscapes not only ruminate on the Australian bush but provide a rich canvas for human emotion to dwell.
Rosella Namok’s Recent Paintings are about colour, alongside telling stories of Country and family from the Ungkum artist’s home in Far North Queensland.
Dean Cross examines his past, present and future ambitions through the lens of a Greek myth in his solo show Icarus, my Son at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. He spoke to Briony Downs about leaving his regional home for the big city and the responsibility of being a culture-maker.
In Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, 22 artists make the most of the constraints and possibilities of wearability and push the limits of body adornment. An Australian Design Centre touring show, Made/Worn opens at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery on 17 July.
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