The exhibition interweaves the works of contemporary Wiradyuri artists, their predecessors and ancestors, with settler pastoral works to shape the experiences incited by the declaration...
Dale Frank is not an easy subject for a documentary. At the after-screening session at the Art Gallery of NSW, the film’s director spoke of...
The esteemed contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has spent much of his creative practice questioning and reflecting on the transience of time, human existence and consciousness,...
Established in 2018, the $50,000 Evelyn Chapman Art Award is presented to an Australian painter under forty-five years to support their further artistic education and...
Zoe Grey’s exhibition of paintings, drawings, and ceramics is inspired by mountainous islands on opposite sides of the world. Grey’s relationship to her hometown of...
Influential art critic, John McDonald, must have had tongue firmly in cheek when he questioned whether the 2023 Portia Geach Memorial Award at the S....
While known for his large arrangements of canvasboards, famed contemporary artist Imants Tillers also writes. About art and artists. About making contemporary art in Australia....
This description makes Zac Langdon-Pole’s practice sound playful, based in small acts of curious deployment of things, ideas, and words—the tangible and intangible, perceptible and...
The curatorial notes for undo the day, an exhibition at Sydney’s National Art School Gallery featuring works by ten contemporary Australian artists, make no mention of...
Growing up the youngest of three sisters in the northern parts of suburban Sydney, Clara Adolphs was largely left to her own devices. With fertile...
Irene Barberis’ work ranges from the monumental The Tapestry of Light, 2006-2019, which combines nanotechnology with Christian apocalyptic imagery, to a variety of minimalist chromatic...
Adam Douglas Hill, better known by his longstanding moniker Blak Douglas, is an Indigenous artist with strong connections to Western Sydney and the inner Sydney...
The past several years have seen numerous protests and acts of vandalism directed against public monuments deemed to be offensive, particularly during the Black Lives...
Landscape has been a dominant force in Australian art since colonial times, a place for myth and legend to play out, the supreme example being...
This year, fourteen artists from Australia presented nineteen works, advised by Perth based artist couple Peteris and Jillian Ciemitis, representing a diverse range of artistic...
The title of Judy Watson’s forty-year survey at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is from a poem written by her son Otis Carmichael in Waanyi...
The internationally renowned artist George Gittoes has no qualms in catapulting himself into dangerous, hyperreal war zones. He has been doing this for the last...
Guillaume Dillée works are a part of an expanding movement of local and international artists that have devoted their practice to detailing the devasting effects...
In Australia there is an ongoing tradition of landscape painting that goes back for more than two centuries. There is also another tradition in Australian...
This exhibition, Paris: Impressions of Life 1880 – 1925, examines aspects of Parisian life drawn from the extensive but relatively little-known collection of the Musée...
Harrie Fasher’s bronze and steel equine forms evoke the human vulnerabilities of life, death, struggle and war.
History and identity are the main themes of this BoS, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ and Indigenous issues as well as climate change, colonisation, the...
I meet with Christopher Bassi in his studio on infamous Boundary Street (the former margin of Magandjin / Brisbane’s once segregated city limits). It is...
Biennials, or biennales, are no mean feat—for curators, artists, host institutions, and audiences. The challenge lies in the delicate dance of marrying a cohesive curatorial...
I knew Ian North for more than forty years. I knew him before I met him. In the early 1980s, as Australian correspondent for the...
