Preview Elizabeth Willing provides food for thought 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. 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
Feature Vera Möller on the mysteries of the deep The marine life of the Great Southern Reef is the landscape behind Vera Möller’s latest abstract paintings, now showing at Philip Bacon Galleries. Briony Downes
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
Feature Up that hill… When does creative block transform into the timeless, untroubled space of creating? Artist Caitlin Aloisio Shearer likens the process to pushing a boulder up a hill. Caitlin Aloisio Shearer
In Pictures Designing the future of Australia’s waterways with Reimagining Birrarung The NGV’s Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 invites eight leading Australian landscape architecture and design firms to reimagine the lands and waters of the Birrarung (Yarra River). View, in pictures, a vision for the future of our waterways. Art Guide Australia