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Taking an expanded approach to Indigenous curatorial practice, the ninth TarraWarra Biennial features work responding to themes of regeneration, restoring spirit, and disrupting colonial space. Three artists discuss their contributions.
Curated by artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi, the program is centred by the theme of Rememory. Originating from author Toni Morrison, the ideas seek to explore the intersection of memory and history—revisiting, reconstructing and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed.
Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With a current exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.
In Fairfield City Museum & Gallery’s latest exhibition Within Heaven and Earth, seven artists, including Linda Sok and Tianli Zu, use storytelling as a device to explore personal identity and cultural memory.
“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.
A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction.
