Feature Shari O’Dwyer Dances with History 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. Gok-Lim Finch
Feature Joel Sherwood Spring on What Lies Beneath 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. Louise Martin-Chew
Feature Poetics of Relation 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. Wen Pei Low
Preview Helen Wright: Enduring Transformations Tasmanian artist Helen Wright’s survey exhibition, Shapeshifting at Queen Victoria and Gallery: Art Gallery at Royal Park, chronicles decades of practice across mediums to reveal new meanings. Briony Downes
Feature Senses and symbols with Mitch Cairns Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Wollongong Art Gallery, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting. Steve Dow
Feature Kicking Convention They might have been continents apart, but visual artists Man Ray and Max Dupain were aligned in their experimental vision, as a major exhibition at the Heide attests. Paul Sutherland