As galleries from across Australia, New Zealand, and much further afield were setting up their stalls with the works of over 400 contemporary artists within...
First impressions are formed within seconds of meeting someone. You judge them—and just as quickly, they judge you. These impressions are determined by mannerisms, facial...
Drendel eschews a nostalgic view of rural life and the vivid experiences associated with his youth, recreating the low horizon line and flat plains of...
The Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery’s booth of carefully curated works at Sydney Contemporary 2024 is drawn from their archive, which includes key historical moments, over the...
At Sydney Contemporary 2024, OLSEN Gallery will present new work from Leila Jeffreys, Shirley Purdie, Holly Greenwood, Eliza Gosse, and Dani McKenzie—five women whose work...
On the rugged northwest coast of Lutruwita | Tasmania, nestled near the leafy Fern Glade Reserve and the winding Emu River, you will find the...
The title of Joshua Yeldham’s exhibition, Broken Head, comes from a moment of tragedy. After labouring for months on a large ceramic head, a moment...
Entering the darkened exhibition space at the University of NSW (UNSW) Galleries forms a literal shift from the other two exhibitions on view—also mid-career solo...
Working as closely together as Picasso and Braque ever did, Crowley’s and Balson’s work metaphorically unfolds before your colour-saturated eyes. Moving from figuration to abstraction,...
In an autumn downpour I arrive at the Annandale studio of Susie Choi. The rain seems to rattle the bones of the old warehouse space,...
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...
