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TextaQueen on punk mindsets and going beyond art institutions

“What I represent in my work really reflects my life, because my work really reflects what I am personally going through,” says TextaQueen. Known for their texta creations, ahead of TextaQueen’s show at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art they talk about skewering Bollywood archetypes via fictional film posters, starring queer and trans South Asian people.

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Do Ho Suh questions displacement and belonging

For over three decades Do Ho Suh has worked across forms like installation, sculpture and film to interrogate diaspora and concepts of belonging. Suh’s first Australian solo is now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art this summer.

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Sally Scales on the links between painting, life and family

A highly respected cultural and arts leader, Pitjantjatjara woman Sally Scales began painting only a few years ago—and the results are beguiling, leading to Scales being a current NATSIAA finalist at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

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“Disorientation and illusion”: Anna Carey on nostalgia and fantasy

Madame Mystery is not a real person, but you can text her to learn your fortune. And she’s a key character in Anna Carey’s latest miniature photographs at Artereal Gallery.

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Jessica Loughlin on the virtues of stillness

Over the last 20 years, Jessica Loughlin has explored the idea of stillness through glass, creating moments for the viewer to pause and simply look. Of Light showcases Loughlin’s career as JamFactory’s Icon for 2022.

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Sentimental to confronting: Sheree Dohnt’s depictions of motherhood

“Media puts an expectation on mums to always be positive”: Sheree Dohnt’s paintings at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery show the joys and challenges of motherhood, from measuring success to what women miss about life before children.

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Susan Jacobs on the possibilities of science and art

“For me, it’s about wonder and not knowing, and the undoing of trying to solve something,” says Susan Jacobs. The Sydney-born, London-based artist is having her largest show to date at Buxton Contemporary, where romance may be found in the clinical—and detritus becomes precious.

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What you can’t miss at RISING 2022

Melbourne’s RISING festival of art, music and performance is something of a fever dream, having been delayed from 2020 and then running for just one night in 2021 before again being impeded by lockdowns. Now taking place this June with over 200 events by 800 artists, it may be tricky deciding what to see—so here’s our top picks, with tickets still available.

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Richard Blackwell’s collision of the digital and ‘real life’

Richard Blackwell’s latest exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery explores the places where the real and unreal intersect in our increasingly digitised world.

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David Sequeira’s home studio is the inseparability of life and art

An artist, curator and academic, David Sequeira’s multidisciplinary practice has spanned over three decades, with colour as its driving force. From his home studio in West Melbourne—where he creates across his house—he discusses his all-encompassing approach to art making, as well as his bold exhibition, All the things I should have said that I never said, and its relationship to his Indian background.

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Marikit Santiago captures stories of creation

Dual theories of life’s beginnings inform Marikit Santiago’s work, showing at the newly reopened 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

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Rewriting the script with Léuli Eshrāghi

The art of Léuli Eshrāghi is rigorous, beguiling and urgent: it’s searching for a future beyond the colonial present, and is showing at UQ Art Museum.

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