ArtHouse, RACV Goldfields Resort.
Inspired by Creswick artist Victor Lither- land’s practice of setting up his easel on the streets of Creswick and painting the buildings, trees and people of the town. Pick up a pencil to complete your own sketch of the lovely surrounds.
Community is the foundation of Claire Conroy’s exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery. As a new arrival to the area, her art practice ties her to fellow artists, while her medium, camera obscura, allows for a deepening of social connections with her sitters as they commit to the shoot.
Step inside Remy Faint’s inner-city Sydney garage, where he meticulously constructs every element of his artworks—from wooden frames and sculpted fabric to striking, multilayered paintings in silk. Faint is now showing at the Rockhampton Museum of Art.
Inspired by different genres of fiction and digital media, the artists in Ghost in the Machine at Outer Space, Brisbane consider avatars, ghosts, masks and levels of embodiment to ask: what if I’m more real when I’m projecting?
There are many parallels between skin and painting. “Paint is a thin skin on a surface—a layer that transmits ideas into the world,” writes Jennifer Higgie in Thin Skin, the accompanying publication to a 2023 exhibition featuring paintings by thirty-six Australian and international artists.
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.
In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.
