Dream and Health, Women’s Knowledge of Plants Dream and Health, Women’s Knowledge of Plants Sofie Dieu Kingston Arts: G1 and G2 Gallery 6 Nov—10 Jan
Feature Shari O’Dwyer Dances with History 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. Gok-Lim Finch
Feature Joel Sherwood Spring on What Lies Beneath 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. Louise Martin-Chew
Feature Poetics of Relation 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. Wen Pei Low
Feature Life Cycles with Betty Kuntiwa Pumani The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony. Emma O'Neill
News The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize has announced its 2025 Winners In its 24th year, Australia’s most prestigious award for small-scale sculpture has announced its winners for 2025, with the 54 finalists now on display at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Opinion About Face The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery. Chloé Wolifson