Artists in CQ: Of the Region brings together the art practices of several artists, presenting a multi-disciplinary conversation about national identity and the acknowledgement of Asian cultures as an enduring component of Australian culture.
Featuring: Ping Carlyon, Jacky Chan, Remy Faint, Qing Huang, Hanbing Lu and Anitha Menon. Curated by Robert Connell and Emily Wakeling.
In Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon, now showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australian-Filipina artist Bhenji Ra explores pangalay—a dance form indigenous to the Tausug and Bajau peoples from the Sulu Archipelago and Sabah in the Philippines.
Shaped by the movement between histories and cultures, the work of Thai-born, Aotearoa-raised artist Sorawit Songsataya draws on mystery and plurality as a means of knowing the world. The artist is now showing at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Museum of Art.
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.
In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.
An exhibition now showing Adelaide Contemporary Experimental—with the likes of Atong Atem, Jacob Boehme and Marikit Santiago—explores the concept of family through the lens of First Nations and culturally diverse artists.
Sandra Black is best known for her distinctive carved and pierced porcelain vessels, which are now showing in a comprehensive survey show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. We step inside Black’s light-filled Fremantle studio, where she has worked since 1988.
