Selfie in her studio, by Julia Robinson.
Using her smartphone, Julia Robinson is giving us a look into her life and practice: her textiles, her cat Chewbacca, and where she lives and creates.
Taken during the national lockdown in May, and featured in our July/August magazine, Robinson’s images show a gentle glimpse into life in Adelaide at a particular moment in time. Read our profile with Robinson, where she talks through the tales and folklore that informs her art.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
‘North Terrace: worlds in relief’ showing at Samstag Museum of Art, invites viewers to reflect on the complicated legacies of the cultural institutions that line Adelaide’s North Terrace.
In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour.
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
