Preview Elizabeth Willing provides food for thought Elizabeth Willing intersects her artistic practice with a love of food in Kitchen Studio, an ambitious project showing at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival. Louise Martin-Chew
Preview Elyas Alavi on queer reclamation In his latest exhibition at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Art, Elyas Alavi reimagines the alam, an object used in Shi’a ceremonies, as a portal for queer Muslim experience. Josephine Mead
Feature Vera Möller on the mysteries of the deep The marine life of the Great Southern Reef is the landscape behind Vera Möller’s latest abstract paintings, now showing at Philip Bacon Galleries. Briony Downes
Interview Colour’s the thing with Lesley Dumbrell Ahead of a career-defining survey at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, icon of abstraction Lesley Dumbrell discusses with Kelly Gellatly the Women’s Art Movement, slowness in creating and viewing, and how she’s reflecting on 60 years of painting. Kelly Gellatly
Feature ‘Not just as we are, but as we have been and as we will be’: the time-warping brilliance of Australian artist Julie Rrap In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a gloriously defiant statement of the ways we shape and reshape our identities over time. Cherine Fahd
Preview Darwin Festival highlights art in the Territory From the NATSIAAs to Kathryn Dwyer, Darwin Festival returns for 2024 with a program that emphasises the breadth of contemporary Indigenous art in the Northern Territory. Barnaby Smith