Feature From the archive: art and motherhood From matrescence-themed collages and intimate family portraits to a series of events centred on the intersection of design and fertility, revisit six pieces from the Art Guide archives that explore the relationship between art and motherhood. Art Guide Australia
Preview Jose Dávila’s balancing act In his first commercial presentation in Australia, one of Mexico’s most acclaimed contemporary artists uses his architectural background to create poetic, finely calibrated sculptural investigations of spatial perception, balance and equilibrium. Jose Dávila’s Physics of Uncertainty is now showing at COMA Gallery. Jo Higgins
Feature Tina Havelock Stevens: Everything all at once Tina Havelock Stevens likes to feel the wind in her hair, which probably goes some way to explaining the generous punk spirit that infuses her multidisciplinary practice, the subject of the exhibition Now is a Beginning at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Jo Higgins
Feature Senses and symbols with Mitch Cairns Mitch Cairns’s latest solo exhibition Restless Legs, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, draws on symbols—from literature, mythology, nature, and home life—to find new pathways into painting. Steve Dow
Preview Joan Ross and the past imperfect Joan Ross has long used her multidisciplinary practice to challenge the enduring legacy of colonialism in Australia. Her latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery shows significant works from throughout her career alongside key pieces from the NPG collection. Sally Gearon
Preview Another side of the story A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery takes us deeper into the life of the often-mythologised artist Frida Kahlo, through her personal photographs, clothing and objects, borrowed from Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house museum in Mexico. Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen