Preview Family Ties Using the powerful connection between mother and daughter, Generational at Madeline Gordon Gallery in Launceston, explores this intimate relationship with creativity and complexity. Briony Downes
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 Rainbow Chan’s Matrilineal Melodies 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. Michelle Wang
Opinion About Face The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery. Chloé Wolifson
Feature Looking Forward, Looking Back with Lisa Reihana Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty. Steve Dow