Maria Petrova is fascinated by faces – each one a story waiting to be uncovered. In her recent drawing based works, she distorts and reassembles facial features, combining angles and expressions to construct imagined portraits that suggest layered, inner narratives.
This year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary marks the launch of Photo Sydney, a presentation that brings together the country’s most acclaimed photographers and gives the medium —and its relevance to our cultural moment—the attention it deserves.
Desert Mob is a critical platform for the cultural and creative authority of desert artists—with artists driving new ways of making, collaborating, and innovating on their own terms, ensuring cultural knowledge is not just maintained but continually expanded through practice.
Embodied, the first iteration of Arts Project Australia’s new exhibition series, Limitless, sees artists Bronwyn Hack and Mark Smith create their most ambitious works yet, with the body at the centre of it all.
At the City of Coffs Harbour’s Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM), science meets speculation in the liminal space between nature and the human world.
Over the past two decades, Sue Kneebone’s practice has threaded together found materials and archival information to consider the impact of settler colonialism on the landscape of South Australia. Kneebone’s exhibition at Adelaide Central Gallery is a nod to her great-great-grandfather and the “trans-oceanic” legacies braided into his story.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
