EMMA-KATE WILSON

Art Incubator, a Sydney-based art gallery and artist studio, has launched a COVID-19 Art Project to provide support for artists during the lockdown and global pandemic.

Art Ark is a social enterprise that has been designed to promote ethical Aboriginal Art from across the country—supporting Australia’s culture while introducing contemporary art to modern buyers.

Set to take place in The Cloud in Auckland’s CBD, the Auckland Art Fair was swiftly moved online after COVID-19 limited the travel and capacity of events. From Thursday 30 April – Sunday 17 May the ‘Virtual Art Fair’ appears online featuring 35 galleries from New Zealand, Australia, China, and the UK— showing the works of more than 175 artists.

In the wake of COVID19, those in the art industry are questioning the value and methods of a changing, newly virtual world. On every curator, artist, and gallerist’s mind: how can we interact with emerging digital mediums as we advance further away from the physical galleries?

Produced in downtown Manilla by Hardworking Goodlooking, Absolute Humidity collates the perspectives of 28 artists and art collectives. In a collection of interviews and essays, the book implements a decolonising process, offering a refreshing breather from the existing books on art and the Anthropocene.

Over the first weekend in April, a charity art auction and online exhibition closed it’s bidding to support a COVID-19 emergency response by Bridging Hope Charity Foundation and Vermillion Art gallery in Sydney. The sales of the artwork are dedicated to helping UNICEF lessen the global impact of the epidemic, focusing on reducing human transmission and ensuring children get access to essential services.

At the helm of Bonhams’ Asian Art department is Yvett Klein, who has art in her blood, thanks to her maternal grandfather, who was a traditional ink and colour painter.

Circular fashion is at the forefronts of people’s minds, as slowly, the industry is changing in response to sustainability.

Breaking Glass marks a new wave for Australian opera, one that resists the classical notions of a male-centric perspective. Sydney Chamber Opera are working in partnership with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s ‘Composing Women Program’ to present new technologies and music by female composers.

On the façade of the new Ritz-Carlton, Perth, Tasmanian-based artist Catherine Woo was invited to engage the grand proportions of Western Australia.

Liverpool Sculpture Walk features ten artists who engage with aspects of Australian nature, climate change, Aboriginal culture, astronomy, and their relationship to synthetic materials.

Melbourne Design Week opens on the 12th March for ten days filled with over 300 events; comprising of talks, exhibitions, tours and workshops.

Wiradjuri / Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones is set to take over 2,500 square metres of Hyde Park Barracks with a temporary art installation comprising of red and white stones collected from Wiradjuri Country, NSW.

The National Photography Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, 6 March – 10 May, is one of Australia's most popular art exhibits, showcasing some of the country's best photographers.

The unlikely union of street art and the digital world have produced the first Australian ‘gif-iti’ artwork across 9000 sqm of disused waterfront ground space at Port Melbourne’s Fisherman’s Wharf precinct.

“A sight that will soon be all too familiar: a looming skeleton of this once great life-giver, now destroyed by the lives it had given. By 2030, the threat of climate change to ecosystems and the bioclimatic limit of trees will be irreversible.”

While considering dystopia, Preppers can offer glimpses into the future, and the less scary steps people have taken to becoming self-sufficient.

Requiem for a Reef explores the deathly effects of the Anthropocene upon humanity, wildlife ecosystems, and various biosystems across the planet.

Jack Lanagan Dunbar is a young, Sydney-based artist who explores the various mediums of art through tactile experiments inspired by Pompei.

Nestled between the CBD and Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is a beacon to an artful life.