Artist books are sometimes treated like exhibition postcards and not much more than mementos, but they grapple with intriguing questions about what to document, and how. Jane O’Sullivan reviews three artist monographs from Elizabeth Newman, Kate Tucker and Louise Haselton, and finds some very different strategies.
Ahead of a career-defining survey at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, icon of abstraction Lesley Dumbrell discusses with Kelly Gellatly the Women’s Art Movement, slowness in creating and viewing, and how she’s reflecting on 60 years of painting.
Throughout her nine decades, Elizabeth Blair Barber used her vibrant social life as the wife of Charles Bunning (of the Bunnings hardware empire) to fuel her art practice and raise the profile of other female creatives by painting well-known figures from the West Australian art scene.
Step inside Clare Milledge’s Avalon home and studio, surrounded by a lush garden of coastal natives, as she prepares for her latest exhibition at STATION Melbourne.
In the latest instalment of the Ladies Lounge saga at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed she faked a number of Pablo Picasso paintings hanging in the gallery’s new ladies toilets, established in response to the forced closure of the Ladies Lounge earlier this year.
What can eco-conscious artists and galleries do to assist the battle against climate change? Deborah Hart, co-founder of CLIMARTE, is working to champion creative action in restoring a climate capable of sustaining life.
As NAIDOC Week comes to a close, it’s also the final days to catch John Prince Siddon’s latest exhibition at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, showcasing his unique and distinctive style of painting.
Care is a word thrown around not just the art world, but many facets of life. Now, a new exhibition between Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University Art Museum is questioning the complexities of the word and action.
Gomeroi/Gamilaraay Murri Yinnah photographer and photojournalist Barbara McGrady has been capturing Country and community for five decades. Her latest exhibition at Campbelltown Arts Centre is a “multichannel audio-visual black takeover of the white cube”.
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.
