Barnaby Smith is a critic, poet and musician currently living on Bundjalung country. His art criticism has appeared in Art & Australia, Runway, The Quietus and Running Dog, among others. He won the 2018 Scarlett Award from Lorne Sculpture Biennale.
A new exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, Pintupi Way, offers a window into thousands of years of culture and survival for the Pintupi people of the Western Desert.
Ceramicist Shaun Hayes explores the inherent contradictions of his own work and materials in Single Use, showing at Stanley Street Gallery.
From Andy Warhol’s Polaroids to Platon’s portraits of Cate Blanchett and Vladimir Putin, the 10th Ballarat International Foto Biennale explores how the camera can depict reality or ‘truth’.
Alison McDonald has moved house 26 times. Her latest exhibition at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts revisits her old dwellings through sculptures that interrogate the toll that moving takes.
“These paintings continue to look at water and sky, the intangible and shifting elements,” says Tasmanian artist Ian Parry of his latest exhibition at Colville Gallery.
“Jeff Koons says ‘embrace your past’,” cites Michael Zavros. “I think I’m good at that.” Brisbane-based Zavros, arguably one of Australia’s most celebrated artists of the last decade, has been dissecting his personal and artistic history his survey The Favourite at Queensland Art Gallery.
From Spring1883 to Sydney Contemporary to Darwin Festival, we’ve rounded up an array of festivals and fairs across the rest of 2023—happening in almost every state and territory.
Known for expressing children’s emotional complexity, Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo displays an artist resurrecting his practice after tragedy, showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
As part of Melbourne Design Week, this year’s four-day Melbourne Design Fair (from 18-21 May) features over 150 designers, centring women and Indigenous creators, and how “the design and making of the things we use in our everyday lives influences the way we think, feel and behave.”
These seven new (and re-opened) galleries represent compelling beginnings in Australian arts. Across city and regional areas, including Melbourne, Sydney, Bega, Maryborough and Barossa Valley, we’ve curated these recent and upcoming gallery openings to explore.
Geoffrey Bartlett’s new exhibition at Australian Galleries Melbourne sees the renowned sculptor’s career, in many ways, come full circle.
This year’s Sculpture by the Sea—an annual seaside sculpture show in Western Australia—asks the central questions of existence with an exquisite light sculpture by Takeshi Tanabe, travelling three kilometres into the night sky. Plus, the winner of the $60,000 Sculpture by the Sea Acquisitive Award has been revealed.
