Commissioned as the first in a series of biannual artist projects responding to Wollongong Art Gallery’s exterior panels, Crushing Shrinking Violets is a bold digital collage patterned from some of the recurring tropes of Contos’s visual language – studs, chains, tulle and cats.
Intended to wrap and bind the grandeur of the building in fancy dress, Crushing Shrinking Violets is a playful ode to the exposure of private reverie through public display.
The National Gallery of Australia’s latest Know My Name exhibition presents the work of Australian fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson alongside pieces by Sonia Delauney, tracing the French artist and designer’s influential use of colour and light.
The quietly evocative work of James Tylor reimagines imperial legacies and illuminates a hidden past. Turrangka… In The Shadows, Tylor’s touring retrospective exhibition, is now showing at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Hong Kong Art Week kicks off this week and Australian galleries are getting down to the business of showcasing their artists on this globally significant art world stage.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery takes us deeper into the life of the often-mythologised artist Frida Kahlo, through her personal photographs, clothing and objects, borrowed from Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house museum in Mexico.
In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.
You’re Welcome?, a group exhibition at Verge Gallery, complicates this country’s well-worn narratives of inclusion and exclusion, while playfully exposing the rules that shape what it means to belong.
