Coconut Studios

Coconut Studios (est. 2020) hosts multidisciplinary art shows, talks and workshops with a focus on diversity, experimentation and change.

Coconut Studios works collaboratively with individual artists, collectives and organisations with shared values to create a platform for the exchange of ideas, bringing new and challenging work to the public in a bid to disrupt the status quo and reveal new ways of being and relating in the now.

Coconut Studios

8/18 Caryota Court, Coconut Grove NT 0810, Australia

+61 475 381 170

coconutstudios.com.au

Thurs to Sat 10am-5pm, or by appointment.

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Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

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Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

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The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

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Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change?

Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.

Alexandra Crosby

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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

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Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Coconut Studios

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