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Push / Pull — *Shan Michael’s studio*, 2025, (detail). Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photograph: Sam Roberts.

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Group Exhibition

Push / Pull

Antony Abrraciavento, Emiko Artemis, Stephen Atkinson, Troy-Anthony Baylis, Alycia Bennett, Matt Huppatz & Adam Birchmore (Adam & Steve), Jingwei Bu, Patrick William Carter, Luna Chan, Allison Chhorn, Dr Dylan Crismani, Amber Cronin, Paul Gazzola, Alex Grant, Sasha Grbich, Dominic Guerrera, Aidan Hughes, Heidi Kenyon, Kirsty Martinsen, Monte Masi, VNS Matrix, Shan Michaels, Ariella Napoli, Alexandra Nitschke, Chris Reid, Tikari Rigney, Yasemin Sabuncu, Fiona Salmon, Gabriella Smart, Trudy Tandberg, Sione Teumohenga, Sarah Tickle, Shirley Wu, Jake Yang, Shenshen Zheng, and Students from South Australian School for the Visually Impaired.

3 May—28 June

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Lion Arts Factory, North Terrace, Adelaide SA, Australia

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Interview

Talking painting with Wendy Sharpe

Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With a current exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.

Sally Gearon

Feature

Janenne Eaton reflects the impact of the digital world on the natural

Janenne Eaton’s first major career survey, Lines of Sight—Frame and Horizon opens at Geelong Gallery. With a lifetime of environmental work and appreciation, the work reflects on the omnipotence of technology, capturing the essential commentary of humanity’s effect on the natural world.

Steve Dow

Preview

The balance of tension

At once an exhibition, performance series, and community-led workshops, Push / Pull is an ambitious program that brings together themes and areas of focus that honour the histories of Adelaide Contemporary Experimental as a platform for radical experimentation.

Bec Gallo

Preview

Taja Vaetoru on tradition and intuition

Taja Vaetoru’s debut solo exhibition Idol, now showing .M Contemporary, explores their Polynesian ancestry, questions of tradition and worship, and how to intersect the past with the present.

Sally Gearon

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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

Preview

Queer theory

Curated by cross-disciplinary art collective KINK, the Institute of Modern Art’s You Are Here Too is an homage to–and expansion of–one of the most significant shows in the history of queer Australian art, thirty-three years on.

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Group Exhibition

Push / Pull

3 May—28 June

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Suggested Reading

Talking painting with Wendy Sharpe

Sally Gearon

Janenne Eaton reflects the impact of the digital world on the natural

Steve Dow

The balance of tension

Bec Gallo

Taja Vaetoru on tradition and intuition

Sally Gearon

Tina Havelock Stevens: Everything all at once

Jo Higgins

Queer theory

Barnaby Smith

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Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Group Exhibition

Push / Pull

3 May—28 June

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Suggested Reading

Talking painting with Wendy Sharpe

Sally Gearon

Janenne Eaton reflects the impact of the digital world on the natural

Steve Dow

The balance of tension

Bec Gallo

Taja Vaetoru on tradition and intuition

Sally Gearon

Tina Havelock Stevens: Everything all at once

Jo Higgins

Queer theory

Barnaby Smith

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