Preview
Into my Arms
The group exhibition and performance program Into my Arms at ACE Open contemplates ‘the embrace’ in performance, installation and a series of new commissions.
Interview
Edwin Tanner and James Hullick’s use of music and mechanics
Mathematical Expressionist is a survey of work by painter Edwin Tanner (1920-1980). Accompanying 60 works from Tanner’s 30-year oeuvre is The Arbour and the Orrery, by artist and composer James Hullick whose mechanised sound installations engage Tanner’s works in dialogue.
By Anna Dunnill
News
James Bugg wins 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Congratulations to James Bugg who has taken out the $50,000 first prize in the 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
By Art Guide Australia
Preview
Focal Point: New Realist Painting
“Painting is always fictional,” says Tony Lloyd when discussing the links between photography, painting and realism.
By Tiarney Miekus
Preview
Authentic Determination: Brigid Noone
In an art world where having a singular artistic refrain or preoccupation is an effective way to get noticed, Adelaide-based artist (and curator, writer) Brigid Noone exalts the merits of inhabiting multiple roles.
By Sheridan Coleman
Review
21st Biennale of Sydney: Marlene Gilson and N.S. Harsha
The lived experiences of Marlene Gilson and N.S. Harsha are separated by both time and space.
By Tracey Clement
Feature
The Field Revisited: A guide to its unofficial satellite exhibitions
To coincide with The Field Revisited at NGV Melbourne, local Melbourne galleries have programmed complimentary shows. Most explore the influence of The Field on contemporary art practice, especially abstract art made today, often infused with colour that pops.
By Zara Sigglekow
Preview, Review
Nigel Hewitt: Recinder
Tasmanian artist Nigel Hewitt meditates on the role of fire as a force of destruction, regrowth and change in his exhibition Recinder.
By Sheridan Coleman
Preview
Lu Forsberg: Transparency and other worries
Transparency and other worries presents a new body of work at Brisbane’s Institute for Modern Art in which the artist probes our distanced relationship to mining.
By Anna Dunnill
Preview
Carey Merten combines mathematics with art
Bold, obsessive and geometric. These are some of the words used to describe Carey Merten’s paintings.
By Tiarney Miekus
Featured Exhibition
Sheer Fantasy
Curated by Western Sydney artist, David Capra, Sheer Fantasy suspends time to confront the role of the fantastical and how it plays within our collective conscious.
Feature
Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
One of Australia’s preeminent contemporary artists, Christian Thompson, is returning to stage his first ever survey at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne.
