Review
A Sullen Perfume by Dean Cross smells of testosterone, petrol and danger
Sydney-based Worimi artist Dean Cross joins a long line of artists for whom the car is a semi-scared symbolic object, both totem and omen.
Interview
Pat Hoffie talks about place and The Partnershipping Project
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
Briony Downes
Feature
Art reflects monstrous times in the Adelaide Biennial
The artists in Monster Theatres are “manifesting the monsters” of this cultural moment.
Steve Dow
Opinion
On Loving Bad Artists
Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?
Sophia Cai
Review
If I pick your fruit, will you put mine back?
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland-based artist John Vea’s show at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is both provocative and elegant.
Rebecca Shanahan
Preview
Experience the dislocation of migration in a wild VR taxi ride
For Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine the still-nascent artistic medium of virtual reality (VR) is the perfect fit for exploring themes of dislocation, disorientation, alienation and culture shock.
Barnaby Smith
Preview
An experimental approach to VR
Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang are redefining VR in contemporary art.
Steve Dow
Preview
Fashion, art and politics meet head on in Hi Vis
In the group exhibition Hi Vis, fashion is used to arrest attention and focus it onto complex political ideas.
Jane O'Sullivan
Preview
Misfit: Collage and Queer Practice
Misfit features the work of 11 contemporary queer artists from Australia and abroad who use some form of “expanded collage” in their practice.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
Review
RocoColonial
It is the deftly-crafted dialogue between the works of 15 artists in the exhibition that reveal the connections between the two wildly different, but similarly slippery, concepts of rococo and colonialism.
Emma O'Neill
Review
The Sounds of Pacing fills new gallery Conners Conners
Sounds of Pacing places early-career artists in lively conversation with each other.
Zara Sigglekow
Interview
Phaptawan Suwannakudt challenges patriarchy by painting in Thai temples and beyond
Phaptawan Suwannakudt brings Thailand’s Wat Pho temple to Australia through her multi-sensory installation Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind at the Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts.
