This exhibition delves into the complex and multifaceted relationship between women and birds.
Exhibiting artists include – Petrina Hicks, Leila Jeffreys, Anna-Wili Highfield, Deborah Kelly, Lucy Culliton, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Michelle Cawthorne, Dianne Fogwell, Kim Goldsmith, Denise Faulkner, Fleur MacDonald, Aleshia Lonsdale, Kim Harding, Michelle Steven and Pamela Welsh.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
Harnessing multiple disciplines across silk, paper and sound, Rainbow Chan’s solo show, Notations: Red Scale, connects with the women before her, re-animating existing histories in new light.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
