John Scurry’s new works in oil and watercolour are most obviously ‘about’ landscape: a life lived within it, the artist’s attachments to it, and the...
Suspended in plume-like formations, hundreds of icicle-shaped glass forms are looming. Was that a sound? They’re alive in the otherwise silent space, swaying slightly in...
Willemina Villari’s work responds to landscape — that is, both the genre of painting and the artist’s own surrounds, soaked with feeling and memory as...
The Close World (2020) was built from conversations with GPT-3, and for the project, you fed the model with foundational texts on the philosophy of language. Which...
Ang’s new photobook will be released as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair and Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria....
The show’s Australian curators have been meticulous in thinking through the relationship of the British designer to Australian domestic audiences, both in the mid-twentieth century...
The works in this survey show span the last three decades of the twentieth century; they function as an historical record of Johnson’s involvement in...
What has influenced your approach to art? It is hard to say, you are what you are and other things affirm what you are. Because...
Representations of women in visual art have historically defined female experience through difference, weakness, passivity, sexual availability, domesticity and, perhaps most unintelligent, an object to...
Many of Turner’s works can be understood as documents weaving the artist’s personal history into broader socio-cultural narratives from twentieth-century Australia. The print of Turner’s...
The designation of textiles and other ‘craft’ as women’s work is, by now, well-worn. Though the works that Florence presents, here, are paintings, they emerge...
In 2019, Dyer told Lucy Hawthorne that, in remission from cancer treatment, ‘what’s important is being here and getting on with your work…the exterior things...
Watson’s mirror (a history of energies), 2021, is unsettling in its perfection, its unlikely and delicate resolution of opposing categories. The sculpture brings the ‘natural’ and the...
George Gittoes’ ‘Augustus Suite’ is a contemporary reincarnation of his earlier ‘Hotel Kennedy Suite’ begun in 1969 at a San Francisco YMCA while the artist...
To mark International Women’s Day 2021, Mason parked a car in Martin Place. The car resists observation, wrapped as it is in mirror film to...
I raise Sherman and Kruger here because in many respects Ces McCully is their direct descendant. Sherman, who utilised photographic self-portraiture, to question self-identity is...
Your first public appearance as Director of the MCA was to launch an exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery in 1999. You spoke about making...
For ‘Tall Tale,’ at STATION Gallery, McGregor traces new conceptual horizons outwards from his established drawing practice, without losing sight of his sustained interests in...
Carriageworks CEO Blair French notes that ARIs ‘run largely on the volunteered time and support of their community but operate at the heart of experimental...
Christofides’s new show ‘Parallel Universe: A Paradise of Images,’ at King Street Gallery, works between these modes of mark- and meaning-making. Christofides explores what it...
Certainly, a sense of wonder permeates many of these works. Pliable oils twist across the canvas, casting a glow of enchantment over the landscapes with...
The title of Hirst’s new work, Darling Darling, is double-edged. We might call somebody ‘darling’ affectionately, of course – but repeat the phrase and the tone shifts...
With Melville’s traditions as background, the eye roams over the delicate, fine lines and blizzard-like dots of Timothy Cook’s canvas’ surface.
Responding to the loss of her father, Pimpisa Tinapalit's upcoming solo at Grau Projekt, ‘Silence #1.5’, is a discussion of the beauty of death.
