A glimpse into the creative journey of a much-admired, award-winning Australian artist. Wendy Sharpe, Spellbound, is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity.
The assemblage of new motherhood, of shifting time and experience, is mirrored in Lillian O’Neil’s poignant artistic assemblages at UNSW Galleries.
From collecting artworks to experiencing the nexus of art and technology, across Darwin, North Queensland, South Australia, Melbourne, Sydney and much more, here’s our curated list of the arts festivals and fairs still to come in 2024.
Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With showings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Rockhampton Museum of Art, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.
The finalist portraits in the biggest Australian art award of the year have been announced, alongside the winner of The Packing Room Prize: Northern Rivers–based artist Matt Adnate for his portrait of ARIA Award–winning Yolŋu rapper, artist and actor Baker Boy.
The lure of ancient Egypt still holds for many, as the National Gallery of Victoria centres its winter exhibition on one figure: the pharaoh.
In Hair Pieces at Heide Museum of Modern Art, hair symbolises the burden of gendered labour—while speaking to how bodies are subject to wider tensions between freedom and control.
