Preview Present moments at the Gold Coast Triennial Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community. Sally Gearon
Feature Archie Moore’s family ties For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead. Maya Hodge
Preview Reviving the potter’s quarter In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece. Michelle Wang
Feature Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change? Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways. Alexandra Crosby
News The NGV returns to French Impressionism The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the next instalment of the Winter Masterpieces series, coming in June 2025, will be a return to French Impressionism—an exhibition from 2021 that closed as soon as it opened due to the global pandemic. Art Guide Australia
Studio Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human. Michelle Wang