Regional artist Melissa Spratt explores her experience of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), through a series of textile works. Using wool, a fibre which can both soothe and irritate, Spratt elucidates the experience of being an HSP by sharing short statements and longer, stream of consciousness style phrases to convey the flood of emotions and thoughts she endures as an HSP.
Helen Mueller has been printmaking for 25 years, but moving to Hobart four years ago shifted her focus to the local natural environment. Now her delicate prints, made with materials foraged from the forest floor, are showing at Handmark Gallery.
An exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane sheds a new light on Brisbane’s history, presenting a significant historical archive of photography alongside contemporary artists responding to the original source material.
Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.
Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.
From pink tasselled capes to catwalk footage, to how identity and politics are inextricably woven through the garments we wear, the title of the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) latest exhibition says it all: Africa Fashion.
Congratulations to Hannah Gartside, who has won the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for her work #19, a piece in her ongoing series Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing, 2024.
