In Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art you will find: a lightbox representing the entire universe; a dark room of floating figures; and the slowed-down breaking of a single wave, mapping the step-by-step shift as the water eventually crashes.
In Isaac Julien’s film Looking for Langston we begin at the end: a funeral. Well-dressed men and women sob, tears running down their cheeks.
The initial inspiration for the exhibition was the desire to create discord with the material properties of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, where this touring show was first presented.
Jenny Watson has received the latest Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship. She will spend two months at the American Academy in Rome.
Jon Campbell’s practice is characterised by an avid interest in Australian vernacular, local and national iconography, popular cultural, colloquial sayings, graphic design tropes, vivid colours and negative space.
Not every country town or city thought to build a permanent local gallery, or if they had, many didn’t survive to the present day. To travel around to experience Australia’s wealth of regional galleries is to be presented with the architecture of make-do.
Showing at PS Art Space, the exhibition is the second instalment of the duo’s three-part Migratory Projects, which, as the name suggests, broadly deals with the aesthetic representation and experience of migration.
Black Magic explores queer Aboriginality from a critical perspective with a playful approach.
Born in Johannesburg in 1972, Breitz, who now lives and works in Berlin, is renowned for her anthropological studies of the cult of celebrity, pop culture, the frame of identity, and representation.
Rather than represent a single viewpoint of the bush, Walker has developed a way to express a fugue-like structure – a set of interwoven elements to invoke being in place.
Tupou is known for his interest in pattern and repetition and vibrant images, originally inspired by his explorations of family, culture and identity in the Pacific.
Phillip England is a former population geneticist with the CSIRO. He took up photography five years ago and most of his images are produced with a large bellows camera.
For the 21st Biennale of Sydney, a full wing of Artspace is dedicated to the videos, sculptures, notes and paintings of Belgian artist Michaël Borremans. The darkened space is punctuated with screens, low-lit plinths and glass-topped cases.
Diane Arbus: American Portraits, a National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition currently showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, features 36 of the photographer’s works created during the last decade of her career, 1961 to 1971.
I had never heard of Bob Ross when I first encountered his smiling face looking out from the ranks of recommended TV shows, but I am sure my reaction to him was typical of the reason his show is now so popular.
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