Chantal Fraser: All that glitters isn’t gold
Across rhinestone-encrusted objects to multi-channel videos, Chantal Fraser’s (literally) dazzling art at Griffith University Art Museum reimagines the workings of power.
Across rhinestone-encrusted objects to multi-channel videos, Chantal Fraser’s (literally) dazzling art at Griffith University Art Museum reimagines the workings of power.
An Australian-born artist of South African and Mauritian descent, Newell Harry is creating a web of ideas in his largest solo project to date at Murray Art Museum Albury.
From quirky birthday cakes to knitting patterns, The Australian Women’s Weekly has a unique place in the Australian psyche. Now, the magazine’s memorabilia, covers and behind-the-scenes photographs are exhibiting at Bendigo Art Gallery.
“It’s really made me reconsider the way I work.” Lisa Sammut’s 10-decade practice spans sculpture, light, video, installation… and now glass. Her beguiling new creations are showing at Canberra Glassworks.
The Biennale of Sydney has announced the theme for the 2024 exhibition: Ten Thousand Suns, along with the first 39 participants. The festival is set to run from 9 March to 10 June 2024.
Motherhood, domesticity, landscape, memory—these are just some of the experiences and memories Sally Anderson has captured in her two-decade painting practice, underpinned by a persistent blue, now showing at Edwina Corlette Gallery.
Congratulations to Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan, who has won the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize for her painting Ngayuku Ngura (My Country). “I paint my Country, the beautiful and powerful Yankunytjatjara Country that I live on and that will always be a part of me,” says Cullinan.
“At times, your emotions might be conflicted by the outside world, and what is happening around you, but the heart and the mind are always intimately connected.” Karen Black takes us into her practice and thoughts, and her inspiring Sydney studio.
Simone Douglas’s artworks can sometimes take months. She creates art that speaks to time and place, as shown in her Artereal Gallery exhibition, which captures her slowly disappearing ice sculpture, Ice Boat.
Ingrid Morley has experienced great loss in the last few years, reckoning with bushfires, a studio fire and the death of a very close friend. Her new show at Orange Regional Gallery responds to this period of upheaval.
Alison McDonald has moved house 26 times. Her latest exhibition at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts revisits her old dwellings through sculptures that interrogate the toll that moving takes.
Resisting the cold bureaucratisation of their lives, a group of women are questioning their interactions with the prison-industrial complex by reclaiming their own humanity—as showing at the Institute of Modern Art.
Nicola Moss’s new paintings at Arthouse Gallery, imbued with organic shapes, textures and colours, are inspired by the English gardens she visited during a trip to London last summer.
The intimacy, suffering and art between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is infamous. While the personal reverberates in their paintings, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia places their art not only alongside each other, but within a wider Mexican modernist movement.
“These paintings continue to look at water and sky, the intangible and shifting elements,” says Tasmanian artist Ian Parry of his latest exhibition at Colville Gallery.