Preview Elizabeth Willing provides food for thought Elizabeth Willing intersects her artistic practice with a love of food in Kitchen Studio, an ambitious project showing at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival. Louise Martin-Chew
Preview Elyas Alavi on queer reclamation In his latest exhibition at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Art, Elyas Alavi reimagines the alam, an object used in Shi’a ceremonies, as a portal for queer Muslim experience. Josephine Mead
Feature Vera Möller on the mysteries of the deep The marine life of the Great Southern Reef is the landscape behind Vera Möller’s latest abstract paintings, now showing at Philip Bacon Galleries. Briony Downes
Feature Up that hill… When does creative block transform into the timeless, untroubled space of creating? Artist Caitlin Aloisio Shearer likens the process to pushing a boulder up a hill. Caitlin Aloisio Shearer
Preview “It’s dance, it’s song”: Wurrandan Marawili’s debut solo exhibition Yolŋu musician and artist Wurrandan Marawili is embracing Gunybi Ganambarr’s ‘Found’ movement in a series of etched aluminium artworks, now showing at Outstation Gallery. Louise Martin-Chew
Feature “Running with the hares while hunting with the hounds”: the life and art of Elizabeth Blair Barber Throughout her nine decades, Elizabeth Blair Barber used her vibrant social life as the wife of Charles Bunning (of the Bunnings hardware empire) to fuel her art practice and raise the profile of other female creatives by painting well-known figures from the West Australian art scene. Briony Downes