With: Matt Arbuckle, Wona Bae & Charlie Lawler, Tamara Dean, Brian Robinson, Annika Romeyn, Hiromi Tango and James Tylor
Seasonal Shifts is a group exhibition presenting artists whose works trace the rhythms of time, memory, identity and human influence on our natural surroundings.
Carol Jerrems’ intimate and revealing portraits of women, now showing at the National Portrait Gallery, are a touchstone for a generation of writers and photographers. For Josephine Mead, they also galvanise the power—and limits—of feminist legacy five decades on.
When times are hard, we often turn to art to remind ourselves that beauty and hope persist. An exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury brings together nine artists from varied disciplines to examine how art can be used as an agent for good.
To coincide with the presentation of the 3rd Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different, Gillian Kayrooz spoke to Karina Dias Pires about how food can express the complexities of culture and difference—and spark unlikely connections across time and place.
Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.
