Willoh S. Weiland smartphone selfie.
Curious, mystical, humourous and bittersweet, Willoh S. Weiland uses her smartphone to give us a sense of living and working in Hobart.
Taken during the national lockdown in May 2020, and featured in our July/August magazine, Weiland is one of ten profiled artists who documented their life with their smartphone, detailing moments in life: taxi receipts, cemeteries, Shell oil cylinders. Read our full profile on Weiland, where she discusses harnessing performance to explore power and feminism.
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
Traversing boundaries of the senses and of class, the work of Tina Stefanou is grounded in community. A solo exhibition at ACCA and a group exhibition at Bundanon showcase her work with unlikely collaborators.
Inspired by the ways in which nature informs creativity, the exhibition Material Nature, now showing at Drill Hall Gallery, aims to encourage viewers to think deeply about the human connection to the natural world.
Inspired by different genres of fiction and digital media, the artists in Ghost in the Machine at Outer Space, Brisbane consider avatars, ghosts, masks and levels of embodiment to ask: what if I’m more real when I’m projecting?
