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
In Pictures In bloom: the art of floral abundance A lavish exhibition adorning Bunjil Place Gallery, in a major partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, presents over 150 historical and contemporary works—spanning painting, fashion, installation, and so much more—that explore a long history of flowers in art. Art Guide Australia
Preview Colour mapping The National Gallery of Australia’s latest Know My Name exhibition presents the work of Australian fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson alongside pieces by Sonia Delauney, tracing the French artist and designer’s influential use of colour and light. Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Feature Embracing darkness with Akil Ahamat In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost. Bec Gallo