What happens, asks artist Caitlin Shearer, when the starving artist trope becomes all too real, alienating artists from their practice, health and happiness?
Within her warehouse studio in the industrial area of Coburg North, Melbourne, with her dog Merri in tow, Isadora Vaughan creates sculptural installations that sustain a visceral tension between incongruent materials and forms. Her work is showing at STATION Gallery Melbourne.
Nick Modrzewski combines his art practice with a similarly intense career in the law. His new paintings at COMA gallery explore the way human bodies fit (or don’t) within the institutional structures that guide our societies.
From changing light bulbs to ending fossil fuel sponsorships, major Australian galleries and museums are attempting paths towards sustainability—but is this enough?
“They stole my face,” shouts a ten-year-old boy into a microphone, before stomping away. We are in the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer exhibition Atmospheric Memory at the Powerhouse in Sydney. The boy’s photograph was taken as soon as he entered the exhibition and then publicly projected onto his shadow.
Showing at UNSW Galleries, Renee So talks on her multidisciplinary practice, art history and museum collections—and how her work looks at “being a female, being Asian, being a mum, being an artist and living in the world”.
In a new show at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ramak Bamzar pays tribute to the women Iran has lost to a brutal regime.
Justine Youssef’s art confronts histories of displacement, genocide and colonialism, alongside preserving the traditions of her Lebanese heritage—as her latest solo at UTS Gallery & Art Collection attests.
Anna Zahalka takes home the $30,000 prize for her expansive trompe l’oeil photographic installation, Kunstkammer.
UQ Art Museum explores the complexities of love, rage, grief, and healing in Mare Amoris | Sea of Love, a collective curatorial vision of art from across the Pacific Ocean.
For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting. This focus continues in her recent series Al río/To the River at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Centering gender, care, sport and nationalism, Anita Johnson has won the 22nd Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for Tenderness, a salvaged cricket ball restored with leather, linen thread, and possum fur.
At the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), two international artists—Jónsi of Sigur Rós and Jean-Luc Moulène—are each centering the sensory experiences of nature, from local materials to volcanic eruption.
“I see my work as a research project,” says Agneta Ekholm. “I have a desire to reach into the unknown with each new painting.” Step inside her large-scale abstract paintings at Flinders Lane Gallery.
“There’s a lot of colour, texture and subtlety.” The Queensland Art Gallery is bringing together artists working both within and beyond the traditional field of abstraction for Living Patterns.
