Feature Serwah Attafuah: a powerful and most welcome voice in contemporary Australian art Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI. Dominic Redfern
Feature Anne Dangar: Uncovering a Cubist pioneer A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction. Camilla Wagstaff
Preview Time scales The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns. Barnaby Smith
Feature Amanda Bell makes light work Amanda Bell’s poignant new commission for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts transforms the heaviness of history and unsettles hierarchies of place. Claire G. Coleman
Feature Nusra Latif Qureshi and the threads of history The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self. Tahmina Maskinyar
Feature Embracing darkness with Akil Ahamat In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost. Bec Gallo