Large-scale paintings of vivid colour and luminous surfaces by contemporary artists.
With: Bill Brown, Jon Cattapan, Claudia Chaseling,Lesley Dumbrell, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Michelle Hanlin, Samantha Hobson,Gregory Hodge, Matthew Johnson, Kitty Kantilla, Madeleine Kelly,Robert Klippel, Rosella Namok and Michael Jagamara Nelson.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
With a 50-year practice exploring her Chinese heritage, longing and belonging, Zen spiritualism and the endless nature of being, Lindy Lee is now unveiling the pinnacle of her art.
Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.
Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.
