Marking the launch of Lucy Fekete’s stunning new book, Unconventional Beauty – Goils of the Sideshow, the original contemporary artworks in this exhibition are a tribute to the diverse and fascinating aspects that make each of us unique. They invite viewers to embrace difference, celebrating the beautiful in all its extraordinary forms.
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.
In a new photography exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba is exploring what it means to be African-Australian, while highlighting the importance of culturally safe spaces for diasporic communities in Australia.
Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.
Now showing at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, the 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial: Residue + Response, showcases 25 diverse artworks and considers what contemporary textiles can be.
Existing in the space between ritual, performance and ceremony, the body-centred work of Latai Taumoepeau rewrites the stories that shape our perception of Oceania—while using ancient traditions to tackle our most urgent modern concerns. Taumoepeau is now participating in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania at Artspace.
You’re Welcome?, a group exhibition at Verge Gallery, complicates this country’s well-worn narratives of inclusion and exclusion, while playfully exposing the rules that shape what it means to belong.
