Feature Dispatches from Tennant Creek With their iconic painted poker machines and installations, notably featured in the 2020 Biennale of Sydney, the Tennant Creek Brio are now taking over Melbourne with a new show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Andrew Stephens
Preview Chris Langlois on the abstraction of the sea Chris Langlois explores the abstract nature and fugue-like quality of the ocean in his latest exhibition at Olsen Gallery, which presents a dozen new large-scale works with endless variations on the seascape. Andrew Stephens
Feature The crafting cultures of IOTA24 “We can communicate with our hands when we craft something”: This year’s Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, IOTA24, delivers craft and culture across Western Australian art galleries. Sally Gearon
Preview Rethinking the art of Paul Gauguin The National Gallery of Australia is contemplating the complicated legacy of Paul Gauguin through a Polynesian perspective in Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao. Andrew Stephens
Preview The life, land and light of Lloyd Rees 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. 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