Poetry Sydney and Gaffa Gallery present Day Street Performances: Machine Assisted Street Poetry Featuring Steven Durbach aka Sid Sledge. Gaffa Gallery 13 Nov—27 Nov
Head On Festival: Beyond Being Head On Festival: Beyond Being Nina Franova Gaffa Gallery 29 Nov—7 Dec
Head On Festival: Portrait: Indian Diwali celebration Head On Festival: Portrait: Indian Diwali celebration Hubert Barre Gaffa Gallery 29 Nov—7 Dec
Preview The rhythm of creating In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse. Sally Gearon
Feature The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect. Michael Sun
Preview Scaling new heights A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental. Michelle Wang
Preview The immersive storytelling of Leah King-Smith 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. Briony Downes
Feature Trevor Vickers and the abstraction of light Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works. Steve Dow
Preview Ellen Dahl creates a dialogue between places In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place. Sally Gearon