‘Mother’ as a subject, concept or idea has been explored and depicted by artists across time and cultures. In the final weeks before we farewell Ron Mueck’s Pregnant woman, MRAG presents a selection of works from the MRAG Collection that reflect on new life, family bonds, love and loss that can all be the experience of Motherhood.
With: Michael Cook, Katthy Cavaliere, Shan Turner-Carroll, Victoria Atkinson, Nell, Anna Louise Richardson.
Steffie Yee spent many years gathering stories and images of her family’s history in the town of Branxton, NSW where her parents successfully ran a Chinese restaurant. Yee’s solo exhibition Chinese Restaurant Playground, which celebrates playfulness and joy, recently opened at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
Blak In-Justice, now showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art, challenges the brutal systems that shape Indigenous incarceration in Australia—while charting the healing power of ancestral knowledge in the process.
Janenne Eaton’s first major career survey, Lines of Sight—Frame and Horizon opens at Geelong Gallery. With a lifetime of environmental work and appreciation, the work reflects on the omnipotence of technology, capturing the essential commentary of humanity’s effect on the natural world.
An exhibition at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery pays tribute to Staffordshire-born Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) and his eponymous pottery company, featuring rare, valuable and ornate pieces, as well as “grandma’s good china”.
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