Melbourne based artist Kate V M Sylvester’s process-driven, meditative practice exposes the often-overlooked materiality of everyday garments. In Pleats of matter, Sylvester has created an immersive installation made from deconstructed, recycled t-shirts, meticulously unthreaded by hand to reveal the mass and structure of the jersey weave.
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.
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.
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.
Ahead of her solo exhibition at Niagara Galleries, Vongpoothorn contemplates the ideas sprouted during her residency, and how they have transformed once returned to her Canberra studio.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale was 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. kith and kin is now on display at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until 18 October 2025.
For its 25th edition, the Biennale of Sydney has announced additional artists, project highlights and initial programming, running free to the public from 14 March—14 June, 2026.
