Laura Patterson’s exhibition, Ghosts, looks beyond what is immediately seen to explore the intangible qualities that are sensed within the landscape. Through an intuitive push and pull between expressive mark-making, layering and carefully rendered detail, the resulting paintings balance the ephemeral with the observed, creating moments where reality and illusion converge in unexpectedly poetic ways.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
Peter Hill interviews Simryn Gill about the exhibition Stolon Press: Flat earth at Monash University Museum of Art.
In an Australian first, the Art Gallery of Western Australia presents Moving Landscape—an exhibition by internationally acclaimed US artist Sam Contis, curated alongside Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson.
Inspired by different genres of fiction and digital media, the artists in Ghost in the Machine at Outer Space, Brisbane consider avatars, ghosts, masks and levels of embodiment to ask: what if I’m more real when I’m projecting?
Curator and proud palawa/pallawah woman, Dr Jessica Clark’s latest exhibition In the air at The Substation connects First Nations and non-First Nations artists in a response to human consumption and environmental destruction through reflection, resistance and redirection.
An exhibition of the work of seven women artists at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales explores themes of tenderness and care through the rich possibilities of paint.
