The artists in Laozi’s Furnace inherit the legacies of early alchemists by delving into material exploration. Can a tank be stitched from leather? Can shadows be crafted from clay? Can animals take on human forms? Bringing alchemy into the 21st-century, our artists reveal the ways of turning mind into matter, and matter back into mind.
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.
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.
The marine life of the Great Southern Reef is the landscape behind Vera Möller’s latest abstract paintings, now showing at Philip Bacon Galleries.
In Lands of Light, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery focuses on Lloyd Rees’s (1895-1988) late paintings inspired by the Tasmanian landscape, while also contextualising them within his earlier work.
What can eco-conscious artists and galleries do to assist the battle against climate change? Deborah Hart, co-founder of CLIMARTE, is working to champion creative action in restoring a climate capable of sustaining life.
Artist books are sometimes treated like exhibition postcards and not much more than mementos, but they grapple with intriguing questions about what to document, and how. Jane O’Sullivan reviews three artist monographs from Elizabeth Newman, Kate Tucker and Louise Haselton, and finds some very different strategies.
