‘My father Baluka is a well known artist and he has taught me my sacred clan designs. I also follow my grandfather, Narratjin, who was one of the first artists to be recognised by the Australian people. I live in my clan lands at Djarrakpi and my wife’s land at Balma. I know all about Yolŋu ceremony and will become a leader of the Maŋgalili.’ – Paul Maymuru.
Trevor Yeung’s art draws on moments of quiet, dawning intimacy between people—interactions which are immensely felt yet so difficult to express. The Hong-Kong based artist is in this year’s Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and Artspace.
With a practice stretching over 50 years, celebrated artist Jill Orr is known for working with her body and centering responsibility towards our environment and place. In her latest exhibition at Linden New Art, Orr revisits an earlier series from 2012—and what it can tell us today.
In their first joint exhibition together, the couple Dana Harris and Peter Atkins share their separate three-year-long projects made during the Melbourne lockdowns, delivering a shared interest in geometry and colour in SUPERsystems at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Nan Goldin’s influential photography can now be seen by Victorian audiences with Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency showing at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. View, in pictures, this iconic, intimate 1980s series that shows how photography and social purpose has defined the artist’s 50-year career.
“Heat and gravity were as much the materials as the glass itself,” says Rosalind Lemoh on her latest show at Canberra Glassworks that explores new mediums and influences for the Gundaroo-based artist.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is showing now at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
