Critiquing the male gaze throughout art history, Qureshi questions the “absence of a female protagonist and even a point of view in major art collections,” she says. “Historically, there are not enough women’s voices in the art world.”
Let me begin with an anecdote to open this review, which is only marginally relevant to what is to follow. You’ll like this because when I finally come back to the subject you’ll go, ‘…oooh, clever!’
Denny’s prognosis in Mine is grim: as he says, instead of farming sheep and mining the landscape, we are now concentrating on mining and monetising data, with surveillance capitalism claiming human experience as raw material for extracting, prediction and sales: “We are all losing the game and the game is faulty.”
Electric sounds reverberate inside Haroon Mirza’s pseudo-operatic composition, The Construction of an Act, at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA).
According to the exhibition room sheet, the word solidarity in the title was an invitation to “walk together.”
The expanse of the sublime and the particular exactitude of botanical studies are present in Valerie Sparks’s immersive wallpaper installations of a hybrid Australian landscape.
In the exhibitions Barkindji Blue Sky and Unvanished, Melbourne based Barkindji man Kent Morris uses digital photography to illustrate how Indigenous culture adapts to change.
Rolling out across Adelaide in October, Tarnanthi, an annual platform for contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, features an art fair, exhibition and festival this year.
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.
Sydney-based artist Merran Esson has won the $20,000 acquisitive award in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019. Her ceramic work Autumn on the Monaro will become part of the permanent collection at Woollahra Council.
Olga Bennett is a Moscow-born, Melbourne-based artist whose practice encompasses an array of mediums that are united by the artist’s keen enquiry into the idea of knowledge.
In the third article in an Art Guide Australia series on textiles, Rebecca Shanahan notes the influence of textile techniques on both other mediums and broader culture by delving into the group show Exploded Textiles at Tamworth Regional Gallery.
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