Alex Martinis Roe in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andre Ortega and Diana Betanzos.
Supported by curator Amelia Wallin.
The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.
In a new photography exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba is exploring what it means to be African-Australian, while highlighting the importance of culturally safe spaces for diasporic communities in Australia.
Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.
A touring exhibition based on a publication of the same title, Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali celebrates Bundjalung artists revitalising the practice of basket weaving, as well as the Bundjalung language—two forms of knowledge that are deeply connected. The exhibition is now showing at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.
In his latest exhibition, now showing at Bett Gallery, Postmodern painter and writer Imants Tillers is influenced by a variety of sources including the metaphysical style of Italian artist Georgio de Chirico.
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.
