
Posters on the pulse
Since their radical rise in the 1970s, posters have been used by artists and activists for feminist, political, environmental and cultural issues. As an exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery attests, today may be no different.
Since their radical rise in the 1970s, posters have been used by artists and activists for feminist, political, environmental and cultural issues. As an exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery attests, today may be no different.
Dapeng Liu juxtaposes painted abstract landscapes with recreations of split-second frames from popular films, news and the internet in his new show at Art Atrium.
Adelaide’s annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art festival returns, and this year includes the first-ever survey exhibition by Vincent Namatjira, as well as artworks by over 1500 Indigenous artists.
In a new show at Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Alex Hamilton paints urban spaces as vast landscapes.
Vincent Namatjira was the first Aboriginal artist to win the Archibald Prize for his portrait of AFL player Adam Goodes in 2020. This painting, among his wider oeuvre, is showing for his first survey at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
A new SBS documentary investigates the little-known 1986 art heist that saw 26 priceless paintings stolen from a remote monastery in Western Australia.
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.