The expanse of the sublime and the particular exactitude of botanical studies are present in Valerie Sparks’s immersive wallpaper installations of a hybrid Australian landscape.
In the exhibitions Barkindji Blue Sky and Unvanished, Melbourne based Barkindji man Kent Morris uses digital photography to illustrate how Indigenous culture adapts to change.
Rolling out across Adelaide in October, Tarnanthi, an annual platform for contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, features an art fair, exhibition and festival this year.
Post-humanism anticipates a future in which bodies are enhanced, replaced or surpassed, and in which the status of ‘person’ isn’t defined by species or carbon-based physicality.
Sydney-based artist Merran Esson has won the $20,000 acquisitive award in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019. Her ceramic work Autumn on the Monaro will become part of the permanent collection at Woollahra Council.
Olga Bennett is a Moscow-born, Melbourne-based artist whose practice encompasses an array of mediums that are united by the artist’s keen enquiry into the idea of knowledge.
In the third article in an Art Guide Australia series on textiles, Rebecca Shanahan notes the influence of textile techniques on both other mediums and broader culture by delving into the group show Exploded Textiles at Tamworth Regional Gallery.
On winning Katrin Koenning said, “If one of the roles of the artist is to engage critically with the times in which they live, winning the Bowness enables me to continue doing so. I could not be more thankful, or more proud.”
In the second article from an Art Guide Australia series on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan looks at two exhibitions featuring Indigenous artists.
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
Unidentified fossils discovered in the Flinders Ranges form the basis of an exhibition by Berlin-based artist, Mariana Castillo Deball.
This is not an exhibition to digest quickly or casually…
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