The Views From Here (Part 1) Artworks from the Liverpool City Council Art Collection Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 27 Apr—1 Dec
Preview The rhythm of creating In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse. Sally Gearon
Feature The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect. Michael Sun
Preview Scaling new heights A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental. Michelle Wang
Preview Helen Mueller tells stories of the forest 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. Sally Gearon
Studio Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human. Michelle Wang
Book Reviews ‘About Face’ mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background. Jane O'Sullivan