Creative Sessions Creative Sessions Open to the public Caelene Nee Glen Art Advisory and Gallery 29 Aug—28 Aug
Threaded Claire Humphrys-Hunt and Joanna Thomas Caelene Nee Glen Art Advisory and Gallery 19 Feb—9 Mar
Feature Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers. Maya Hodge
Feature Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions 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. Steve Dow
Preview Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Josephine Mead
Feature Ways of seeing In an era that is saturated with visual information, photographs that change the way we see the world can feel increasingly elusive. We invited three photographers to choose an image that challenges our assumptions about politics and culture during this historical moment. Art Guide Australia
Interview Windows to the world: a conversation with Glen O’Malley Queenslander Glen O’Malley stands as a key figure among a generation of photographers who depicted the domestic lives of Australians in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with Barnaby Smith, he discusses the landmark 1988 show Journeys North, and QAGOMA’s current exhibition Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography. Barnaby Smith
Opinion Home truths Material concerns such as housing can determine an artist’s wellbeing and sense of possibility—an idea that is often overlooked by romantic ideas of art making that are out of sync with our current reality. How can artists navigate a society in which reliable shelter is elusive? And can art itself help us reimagine what it means to achieve secure footing in an increasingly volatile world? Jo Higgins investigates. Jo Higgins