William Yang, smartphone self in his studio.
In our July/August magazine we profiled ten artists, and asked each artist to document their life with their smartphone. The resulting images are intimate, personal, humorous and poignant, and give a unique insight into lives and practices during the country’s national coronavirus lockdown.
In the images below, photographer William Yang – whose art speaks of love and death, crisis and identity – has sent us snaps of his life in Sydney, capturing his shrines and studio, and small ephemera from his day-to-day. You can read our profile on Yang, where he talks through his latest work centred on a man named Joe, who, in 1979, Yang put into a taxi and farewelled.
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.
In celebration of Artbank’s 45-year anniversary, two major exhibitions and a publication are on display. View, in pictures, Artbank’s Sydney exhibition, Art Text/Text Art.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
The everchanging nature of what constitutes a home is celebrated and explored in Boundaries: Transcended, now showing at the Bank Art Museum Moree.
