The churchie emerging art prize – until 19 December
For emerging art prize ‘the churchie’ at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 13 finalists were invited to consider ‘failure’ as a theme selected by Sydney-based curator Talia Smith.
ACCA Open
Melbourne-based, ACCA gallery are celebrating Australian art in a city that is facing deprivation of gallery visits with a purely digital art programme. ACCA Open brings together six newly commissioned works that expand on the mediums of contemporary art, from audio, visual, video, written to interactive projects.
The Watters Gift
As Vale Frank Watters passed away in May 2020, he left behind him a legacy of Australian art history to University of Technology, Sydney.
Interno — a four-part podcast that connects artists and artmakers through the global pandemic.
As part of the Institute of Modern Art’s Making Art Work initiative, Sydney-based arts writer, Mariam Arcilla presents Interno, a new podcast or 'time capsule’, where she speaks to artists across the world on art and activism during the global pandemic.
FBi Art Auction — get bidding!
Bi Radio’s first online art auction brings together over 70 of Australia’s most well-known artist such as Abdul Abdullah, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Janet Laurence, Jason Phu, Justene Williams, Khaled Sabsabi, Ken Done, Lindy Lee, Mike Parr, and Reg Mombassa — among many others.
Book review: Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism
Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism presents indigenous design, unpacking thousands-of-year-old technologies, while revealing how modern design can use and learn from it today.
Art Incubator’s COVID-19 Art Project
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 — ethical Aboriginal Art
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.
Auckland Art Fair
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.
Spread Art Not Viruses — art in the age of COVID19
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?
Book review: Absolute Humidity — Edited by Tess Maunder
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.
Love, Unmasked - A COVID-19 Art Auction
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.
Yvett Klein — Bonhams Asian Art Specialist
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.
How Can the Clothing Industry Embrace Circular Fashion?
Circular fashion is at the forefronts of people’s minds, as slowly, the industry is changing in response to sustainability.
Breaking Glass at Carriageworks, 28 March – 4 April
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.
Cascade by Catherine Woo & UAP in Perth
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, Sydney, Until 31 August
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, 12 – 22 March
Melbourne Design Week opens on the 12th March for ten days filled with over 300 events; comprising of talks, exhibitions, tours and workshops.
National Photographic Portrait Prize
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.
Jonathan Jones untitled (maraong manaóuwi)
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.
Australia’s first gif-iti
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.
2030 at Sculpture By The Sea
“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.”
Preppers
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
Requiem for a Reef explores the deathly effects of the Anthropocene upon humanity, wildlife ecosystems, and various biosystems across the planet.
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