The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is exploring the photographic lines of illusion and truth from via international icons—Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gilbert & George and Nan Goldin—to Australian masters like Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, Mervyn Bishop, Polly Borland and Darren Sylvester.
Mona brings new works out of the archive for the ever-evolving collection Monanism. Currently on display are works by Cassandra Laing and Michel Blazy.
The first Torres Strait Islander artist to show in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden, Janet Fieldhouse gifts us her deep affinity for sculpture.
From art crushes to parenting to why she largely uses black-and-white images, we caught up with Gunditjmara artist Hayley Millar Baker to ask 20 quick questions about her 2022 survey show at Flinders University Museum of Art, and how her images speak to Aboriginal experiences and memory.
From co-founding pivotal First Nations collectives to a trailblazing curating and academic career, to an equally profound art practice, Brenda L Croft centralises family and culture—which resonates as much as ever.
“It’s a relationship I’m speaking about, a relationship with environment, place, my grandmother and family,” says Christopher Bassi. With inspiration vested in a matrilineal connection to Queensland’s far north, the sea, and the tropics, Bassi practises from a light-filled studio in Brisbane’s West End.
The widespread demise of coral reefs due to climate change is now a certainty. But what role does art have in our future for coral reefs?
A new exhibition at Court House Gallery unites three artists—and friends—with varied practices but cohesive ideologies.
The annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism act as something of a mirror to society—reflecting back the year we had through photographs. The exhibition of the 2023 winners is currently on display at the State Library of Victoria.
The largest exhibition of Lee Miller’s work shown in Australia in over 30 years, including that shot of her in Hitler’s bathtub, is currently at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Tania Ferrier’s new exhibition at Gallery Central interrogates body autonomy through a series of collaborations with photographers, fashion designers, models—and even a feminist clown.
2024 is already shaping up to be a huge year for art exhibitions. Here’s what we’re excited about, from namedropping to Nan Goldin’s photographs, to long-deserved survey shows of significant Indigenous artists.
From explorations of diaspora to Indigenous sovereignty, reality television to meditation, editor-in-chief Tiarney Miekus asked our writers to outline why these 10 artists are the ones to keep an eye on in 2024.
An exhibition at David Roche Foundation pays tribute to Staffordshire-born Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) and his eponymous pottery company, featuring rare, valuable and ornate pieces, as well as “grandma’s good china”.
Tamara Bekier uses paint to give a voice to the silencing and trauma she experienced as a refugee during World War II. At 92 years of age, her exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat is a survey of her life’s work.
