Beyond the Frame Beyond the Frame Glen Eira Cheltenham Art Group Glen Eira City Council Gallery 3 Oct—27 Oct
Dreams – Youth Art Exhibition Dreams – Youth Art Exhibition Presented by Glen Eira Youth Services Glen Eira City Council Gallery 5 Sep—29 Sep
Caulfield’s Racecourse Caulfield’s Racecourse Glen Eira Historical Society Glen Eira City Council Gallery 3 Oct—27 Oct
Jessi Hooper: Nature’s Mosaic Jessi Hooper: Nature’s Mosaic Glen Eira City Council Gallery 5 Sep—29 Sep
Preview Elizabeth Willing provides food for thought Elizabeth Willing intersects her artistic practice with a love of food in Kitchen Studio, an ambitious project showing at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival. Louise Martin-Chew
Preview Elyas Alavi on queer reclamation In his latest exhibition at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Art, Elyas Alavi reimagines the alam, an object used in Shi’a ceremonies, as a portal for queer Muslim experience. Josephine Mead
Feature Vera Möller on the mysteries of the deep The marine life of the Great Southern Reef is the landscape behind Vera Möller’s latest abstract paintings, now showing at Philip Bacon Galleries. Briony Downes
Preview The life, land and light of Lloyd Rees In Lands of Light, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery focuses on Lloyd Rees’s (1895-1988) late paintings inspired by the Tasmanian landscape, while also contextualising them within his earlier work. Louise Martin-Chew
Feature Nicholas Smith and the sensuality of sculpture Nicholas Smith’s sensuous and bodily sculptures speak to the classical history of the form in an installation that is now on display at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions. Laura Couttie
Feature Up that hill… When does creative block transform into the timeless, untroubled space of creating? Artist Caitlin Aloisio Shearer likens the process to pushing a boulder up a hill. Caitlin Aloisio Shearer