Trading Cloth critiques the introduction of European cultural practices to Australia that are incongruent to its inherent climactic and landscape conditions. In mid-2023 artist and weaver Blake Griffiths undertook a residency at the Icelandic Textile Centre and undertook extensive collection research throughout Scandinavia investigating old vaðmál cloth.
Mungari, a landmark exhibition at Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, marks the return of the Gweagal spears to their ancestral country while speaking to the constellation of relationships that knit together people, objects and place.
Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists is an annual celebratory exhibition of Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia. Now showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the event has a community spirit and passion that grows each year.
With a current survey exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.
Buoyed by the power of love and the spirit of artistic invention, Mostafa Azimitabar’s new solo exhibition at Maitland Regional Gallery turns dehumanising narratives on their head.
Tina Havelock Stevens likes to feel the wind in her hair, which probably goes some way to explaining the generous punk spirit that infuses her multidisciplinary practice, the subject of the exhibition Now is a Beginning at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
An exhibition of the work of seven women artists at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales explores themes of tenderness and care through the rich possibilities of paint.
