Feature Shari O’Dwyer Dances with History holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony. Gok-Lim Finch
Feature Joel Sherwood Spring on What Lies Beneath For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. Louise Martin-Chew
Feature Poetics of Relation Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space. Wen Pei Low
Feature Looking Forward, Looking Back with Lisa Reihana Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty. Steve Dow
Preview Restoring Stories Key artworks from the East Kimberley Art Movement have been restored and are on display in Ride on, shine on at the South Australian Museum. Steve Dow
Feature Seeing Double A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head. Amelia Winata