Performance has always been a part of visual arts as seen in movements like impressionism, abstraction and pop art. In Focus 2024 centres on the theme of ‘Performance’. Artists were invited to explore how they could evoke, reminisce and capture the feeling or essence of performance through their art.
Local artists were encouraged to visit performances for inspiration and their subjects include music, theatre, dance, comedy and more.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.
Rochelle Haley is responding to the need for safe spaces in a new public artwork at Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, Lunar Sway, that blends light and colour to create a sense of calm.
First Nations artist Reko Rennie possesses the gift of creating memorable images that are simultaneously puzzling, intriguing and entertaining.
