Tu’u’s new work is, indeed, an exploration of resolution: visually, chemically, and perhaps in a sense more greatly abstracted. Developing the abstraction of his earlier...
Intrinsic to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's practice is her innovative media and highly individual painterly expression that she describes as ‘mayilimiriw’ – meaningless.
David Griggs’ first solo show in Melbourne in eight years features a suite of painterly portraits responding to a socially and politically turbulent year.
Melbourne-based, South Sudan-born artist Atong Atem’s vibrant palette and beautifully stylised imagery draws the viewer into a narrative that belies its facade
Annabel Nowlan’s 'Vernacular' (2020) pitches linguistic and cartographic modes of meaning-making towards each other.
‘‘Til It’s Gone’ brings together a trio of Australian artists each approaching themes of ecology, geomorphology, time and ruin...
As we enter lockdown again on the Northern Beaches, Alana Wilson’s work inspires us to look closer at nature and our immediate surroundings.
‘Barka: The Forgotten River’, recently presented at the Murray Bridge Regional Art Gallery, South Australia, is about symbiosis.
'Adrienne Doig: It’s All About Me!’, a comprehensive exhibition surveying three decades of the Blue Mountains-based artist’s practice...
There are ‘isms’, movements and ‘schools-of’ in the artistic vocabulary that, over time and with compelling evidence, end up sticking like glue...
Twenty years on it is salutary to review what was achieved by the Myer Inquiry into the Visual Arts & Crafts sector.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that photographs in this article contain images of a deceased person.
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have, for twenty years, ambushed global notions of normality...
A Wiradjuri woman living in regional New South Wales, Karla Dickens is known for her often provocative reflections on Australian culture, past and present.
Anna Glynn explores the fraught nature of colonial art, approaching the antipodean landscape as a stage for reflection and the reimagination of historical narratives.
This summer, Tiwi art overtakes Melbourne in the largest ever exhibition of Tiwi art at the National Gallery of Victoria, as well as satellite shows...
Soda_Jerk's film TERROR NULLIUS looks for the unspoken assumptions about Australian culture embedded in the annals of popular entertainment.
Shireen Taweel’s latest exhibition ‘Switching Codes’ takes influence from multilingualism in Lebanon and Australia, embodying a philosophy of language that is poetic, transformative, and communal
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.
Ambitiously, ‘The TERRA Within’ surveys the impact of colonisation since Captain Cook’s voyage to the east coast of Australia 250 years ago.
Sometimes I get asked how I make my work. I’m not so sure, but I think the past is somehow important. Not only how you...
Lea Ferris’ new series of marble sculptures explores both the magic and mortality of the reef.
Peter Boggs has honed a visual language that unveils the secret and forgotten aspects of fast diminishing rural urban landscapes...
