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?
The lure of ancient Egypt still holds for many, as the National Gallery of Victoria centres its winter exhibition on one figure: the pharaoh.
Sara Oscar’s Counterfactual Departures uses generative AI to create an otherwise non-existent family archive—creating photographs that depict her pregnant mother’s migration from Thailand to Australia in 1974.
Video and time-based art is a mutant medium with a disjointed history. Jane O’Sullivan reviews Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image, which takes a snapshot of contemporary practice through 21 recent moving image commissions.
Laura Jones has become the twelfth woman to win the Archibald Prize for her portrait of writer Tim Winton.
An exhibition at QAGOMA is taking inspiration from Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, drawing from the gallery’s Indigenous Australian art collection to celebrate the connection between plants and Country.
A surrealist legend, a cyber-futurist Chinese artist and a revered painter are showing in Sydney later this year: René Magritte and Cao Fei at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Julie Mehretu at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
In times of scarcity and the Anthropocene, our homes, dwellings and emergency shelters take on a charged, emotive, and fundamental meaning—as Kasia Töns’s textile creations, now at Ararat Gallery TAMA, show us.
The Australian art world is in mourning, having lost two art icons in one week. Following the recent passing of Destiny Deacon is the loss of contemporary photographer Rosemary Laing, one of Australia’s most revered photographic artists.
Step into Melbourne’s iconic Nicholas Building, where Kez Hughes has been crafting meticulous oil paintings that depict ancient objects from European museum collections—all for her solo exhibition Translations at Nicholas Thompson Gallery.
The finalist portraits in the biggest Australian art award of the year have been announced, alongside the winner of The Packing Room Prize: Northern Rivers–based artist Matt Adnate for his portrait of ARIA Award–winning Yolŋu rapper, artist and actor Baker Boy.
Festivals can be overwhelming, especially during a cost-of-living crisis. So we’ve curated the ‘must-see-but-on-a-budget’ art events at this year’s RISING—all free or low cost with no bookings required, from Richard Bell’s iconic Embassy tent to Jeremy Deller’s 24 Hour Rock Show to art-filled micro-bars.
Destiny Deacon “was an artist who understood all that matters”, says the writer and poet Tony Birch, one of many friends and fellow creatives attending to their grief over the death of the esteemed multimedia artist last week, at the age of 67.
As the harmony of nature feels increasingly fragile, what happens if your art centres nature itself? We asked five artists—Nici Cumpston, Karla Dickens, Jenna Lee, Janet Laurence and John Wolseley—how it feels to work with nature in these times.
Matilda Davis’s newest exhibition at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery confronts the devastation that colonialism and capitalism have wreaked on Country.
