National Identity in The National
The National 4: Australian Art Now features exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia). The National’s five curators: Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley, Freja Carmichael, Jane Devery, Beatrice Gralton and Emily Rolfe offer a selection of works in line with […]
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The National 4: Australian Art Now
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current events, and home. Two of these are: Hoda Afshar’s confrontational selection of photographs, Aura; a timeline of three years, 2020-2023, consisting of the social and political turmoil that has dominated […]
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Thea Anamara Perkins: Stockwoman
Throughout the summer, Sydney’s Carriageworks is host to Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins’s Stockwoman, 2022. The mural, with two component parts, wraps around the walls of the former industrial space, intermittently cut through with light from the high windows as the sun moves across them. In the sky of the painting itself rests […]
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Peter Hill’s Top Ten Picks from Sydney Contemporary 2022
Peter Schjeldahl, the great American art critic for The Village Voice, and now The New Yorker, once described the visceral experience of viewing the astonishing late works of Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan. “The effect was like a plane taking off, when the acceleration presses you against the seat. The painting’s violent intelligence detonated […]
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The National 2021: New Australian Art
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine artists, collectives and collaborative ventures. It offers a resonant and aware collection of ideas, and significantly, now has the stellar commitment from its three supporting institutions to continue beyond this, […]
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No Show
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 and critical practice.’ Precisely this dynamic, in which artists labour, imagine, and build communities without guarantee of financial security for their efforts — and are yet venerated as crucibles of […]
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The National: New Australian Art
Three of Sydney’s major public art institutions showcase a multivalent multitude of new Australian art.
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The 21st Biennale of Sydney
The 21st Biennale of Sydney unites the work of seventy artists and art collectives from six continents.
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Sydney Contemporary Exhibitors Announced
Sydney Contemporary announces more than 70 galleries from Australia and overseas, with respected names from 12 countries and 4 continents coming together in Sydney for the inaugural fair in September this year.
