Marion Borgelt: The Permanence of Impermanence
The Australian artist fuses organic and inorganic materials to create artworks that reflect a diverse subject matter and personal journey.
The Design Files + Laminex Design Awards: Looking at Australian lighting through the lens of contemporary art.
Every year, eager art and design fans anticipate The Design Files + Laminex Design Awards results, which surveys the diversity of creativity across Australia. This year, the finalists are in, and the effect is just as dazzling.
Juz Kitson’s Porcelain Wilding
In her new exhibition, the Australian artist returns to simplicity, but her sculptures retain their surreal, dystopian qualities.
Exploring the Human Body and Experience Through Hyperreal Art
Three Australian artists reveal the obsession and deep fascination with the hyperreal by using the human body as a lens to understand our relationships to one another, time, and our environments.
Exploring Public Art through the Practice of Emma Coulter
The Australian artist created her own minimalistic color palette with which she decorates public spaces, combining art, architecture and installation.
Shifting Homes: Saving Polynesian Islands
With ancient architecture at the heart of the artwork, as well as water and shifting attitudes towards the climate, Shifting Homes taps into empathy and understanding through Virtual Reality (VR) — employing all the stakes to draw attention to the climate crisis unfolding in the Pacific Islands.
From Circus Fleas to Peacock Spiders, María Fernanda Cardoso Exalts Nature
The Colombian artist invests considerable time and resources in her art, creates collaborations with scientists and specialists, and dedicates her life to the observation of nature.
Khadim Ali’s Woven Narratives
Imbued with personal connections, memories, and perspectives, Sydney-based artist Khadim Ali’s practice draws on his global experiences as a refugee torn from the homeland.
Bringing the Arts Back to the People: HOTA
The new gallery is offering novel opportunities to artists and a more democratic viewing experience to its audience in its massive, modern gallery complex.
Keeping the Story Strong: Betty Kuntiwa Pumani
The APY artist continues her lineage of portraying the dazzling colors of her environment, maintaining that the ongoing tradition upholds her community.
Furniture as Contemporary Art
Blurring the lines between fine art and design, diverse natural materials are used to create works that respond to a contemporary style of curation that seek both exploration and functionality.
Looking Through the Viewpoint: Australian Contemporary Photography
Australian Artists use their lens to question and interrogate the country’s past and present, forcing the viewer to observe and contemplate.
Clay: Finding Art in Contemporary Australian Ceramics
In the last years, the ancient material has transcended its traditional functionality and has been elevated to its own form of fine art.
Avant-Garde Aesthetics and the Fusion of Old and New Materials
The intersections of art and design follow a rich and long-standing history in Australia. For over 65,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been crafting culture that continues today in the contemporary market.
DESIGN Canberra
The Australian design festival has gone to great lengths to accommodate online viewers so they can participate in a variety of activities, celebrating the vast forms of art and design created under the theme of Care.
Lindy Lee’s Moon in a Dew Drop
The Australian artist of Chinese descent meditates on identity, family, spirituality and belonging, on the ‘I’ and the universe. A retrospective at the MCA, Sydney looks at her oeuvre.
Coping With Past and Present Through the Art of Architecture
The young Edition Office uses its architectural practice to promote discourse and look not only at physical surroundings but its cultural contexts too.
Integrating Art and Design: Curatorial + Co
The newly opened gallery in Sydney took a deliberate risk by opening a physical gallery in such uncertain times as it seeks to create a gallery for the next generation.
‘Our Art Center Is at the Heart of Our Community:’ Tjala Women’s Collaborative Presents Nganampa Ngura
In the heart of Australia, a renowned art community comes together to produce a collaborative artwork for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2020.
Abdul Abdullah: Emojis, Tattoos and Prejudice
The Australian inter-disciplinary artist talks modern language, racial bias and scary looking but friendly monkeys.
Dancing with the Dead
An exhibition, postponed due to Covid-19, explores the depth of darkness, but also its journey to illumination, aiming to create dialogue by sharing it online.
‘A Source of Real Pride:’ All-Women Teams in the Australian Art Industry
From art centers and magazines, to galleries and auction houses, women take decisive roles in key positions in the arts in Australia, but some bias might still prevail.
Light and Space at Carriageworks Summer Shows 2020
Carriageworks’ summer shows extend the limits of colour, light, space and time into a duality of histories.
Creative Hope Emerges from Australia's Wildfires
In the midst of terrible tragedy, Australian artists band together to raise money, donate their own artwork and even create new pieces to save lives.
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