Showcasing historical collection works that reveal how outlaw iconography has evolved over time, this exhibition on lower level 2 of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new building assembles an unruly cast of characters.
The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers.
In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.
French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Queenslander Glen O’Malley stands as a key figure among a generation of photographers who depicted the domestic lives of Australians in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with Barnaby Smith, he discusses the landmark 1988 show Journeys North, and QAGOMA’s current exhibition Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography.
Material concerns such as housing can determine an artist’s wellbeing and sense of possibility—an idea that is often overlooked by romantic ideas of art making that are out of sync with our current reality. How can artists navigate a society in which reliable shelter is elusive? And can art itself help us reimagine what it means to achieve secure footing in an increasingly volatile world? Jo Higgins investigates.
Featuring work by Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Arrernte and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja, Two Girls From Amoonguna is an ACMI touring exhibition now showing at Araluen Arts Centre.
