Since the 1970s Margaret Dodd’s ceramic holden cars, which are pioneering feminist artworks, have forged pressing questions on femininity, masculinity, sexuality, capitalism and identity.
A pioneer in feminist and community driven art, Vivienne Binns talks about 60 years of interrogating what art truly is, and how art is a human activity.
Whether placing an artwork in his stomach, actualising a body with a third hand, giving his agency over to performance viewers, and rather famously growing an extra ear on his arm, Stelarc has gone to true extremes.
“Black and white photography has always been my…I suppose it’s just kind of my life,” says Mervyn Bishop on his 60-year photography practice.
“I guess that is the thread, that I am very open to influences that come into my life, you know, and I respond to them,” says Suzanne Archer in The Long Run, Art Guide’s latest podcast series featuring interviews with artists who have 60-year practices.
“Art is this amazing subject,” says Robert Owen. “It comes from different people and it contributes to cultural identity in a way that can question ourselves…”
In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? These questions, and more, are explored in the second episode of our newest podcast series FEM-aFFINITY, featuring a very honest and intimate conversation with photographer Janelle Low.
What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? FEM-aFFINITY, a new three-part podcast series, delves into this question by focussing on an exhibition of the same title.
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is reopening with a new $50m building, and a new identity. With eight exhibitions lined up, alongside unveiling its ceramic workshop, outdoor amphitheatre and tourist centre, its aiming to be a community hub as much as a gallery.
With textiles as her medium, Hannah Gartside engages with the histories and textures of material—and is creating new work for MCA’s Primavera, centred on five powerful women.
In art, a sense of mystery can capture a viewer’s imagination, creating a reprieve from our current reality. But as market forces risk turning identity into commodity, who is granted the privilege of artistic mystique?
At a time when it feels more important than ever to support local artists, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is relaunching by celebrating the state’s art, visual language and storytelling with The View From Here.
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