News Singing Spears Home 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. Tyson Frigo
Feature Coming into view 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. Gok-Lim Finch
Interview Julie Fragar on “painting in the first person” 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. Briony Downes
In Pictures Inside the heart of African-Australian communities 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. Art Guide Australia
Preview Agneta Ekholm finds silence in paint “I see my work as a research project,” says Agneta Ekholm. “I have a desire to reach into the unknown with each new painting.” Step inside her large-scale abstract paintings at Flinders Lane Gallery. Sally Gearon
Preview Phuong Ngo’s ancestral legacies Phuong Ngo’s first major solo exhibition Inheritance, now showing at West Space, spans generations and continents, incorporates objects bought and sold across family lines, and draws on both spiritual and everyday rituals. Bec Gallo