In this newly commissioned exhibition Caballero invites visitors to contribute to a collaborative patchwork installation. Taking inspiration from her favourite childhood book, L Frank Baum’s The Patchwork Girl of Oz, and the psychedelic textiles of the 1970s, she re-creates the rebellious Patchwork Girl, also known as Scraps, as a larger-than-life-size doll.
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.
Healing: Art & Institutional Care, at La Trobe Art Institute, suggests a methodology on how galleries and exhibitions can repair complicated tensions.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
