The assemblage of new motherhood, of shifting time and experience, is mirrored in Lillian O’Neil’s poignant artistic assemblages at UNSW Galleries.
From collecting artworks to experiencing the nexus of art and technology, across Darwin, North Queensland, South Australia, Melbourne, Sydney and much more, here’s our curated list of the arts festivals and fairs still to come in 2024.
Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With showings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Rockhampton Museum of Art, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.
A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat asks nine Australian and five US artists to respond to the visual culture of the landscapes and architecture of Palm Springs, California.
In Hair Pieces at Heide Museum of Modern Art, hair symbolises the burden of gendered labour—while speaking to how bodies are subject to wider tensions between freedom and control.
The Immigration Museum’s Joy exhibition offers seven Victorian artists a whole room in which to convey what joy means to them. Callum Preston has recreated a nostalgia-soaked video store, straight out of the 90’s.
Two exhibitions at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery are exploring two varying yet interlocked conceptions of time: history as an evolutionary process amid our daily experiences of life.
This year has seen a flurry of new activity in Australia’s art scene, with a number of new gallery spaces opening up and relaunching across the country. Here are four you need to check out, from a new Sydney location to an online platform aiming to revolutionise the art market.
Congratulations to Amos Gebhardt, who has won the 2024 National Photographic Portrait Prize for Alexis with moon, a diptych portrait of award-winning First Nations author Alexis Wright.
An exhibition at Flinders University Museum of Art is showcasing the iconic posters and prints to come out of the Progressive Art Movement (PAM)—a group of artists activists that started in Adelaide in the 1970’s.
Trained in timber furniture making and metal fabrication, Adelaide-based artist Nat Penney has developed a professional practice that balances the creation of functional objects with evocative, more abstract forms. Her latest works are now showing at Newmarch Gallery.
Sturt Gallery and Studios, the pioneering design centre and school for contemporary craft, has operated in Mittagong since 1941. The space is currently under review to determine its future viability.
Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. With a new solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Brassington gives a rare interview talking about studying art in her thirties, psychoanalysis, and discovering feminism through a wives’ book club.
Stacey McCall understands painting as both a domestic pursuit and a calm meditation. Her latest series Breathwork is showing at Michael Reid Murrurundi.
A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world?
