Wayne Eager × Ayako Saito @ Australian Galleries: Movement in form - Art Almanac
Colour, movement, and geometries play out in alternative methodologies at the two Australian Galleries spaces this July.
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Melitta Perry × Beth Kennedy @ Anthea Polson Art: Immersion in nature - Art Almanac
The two exhibitions at Anthea Polson Art, Queensland this June both capture the sense of immersion in nature. From Melitta Perry’s Traces In The Landscape, which combines the landscape with art iconography, to Beth Kennedy’s Afterglow, which allows the botanical to take an emotional form on the canvas.
MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection - Art Almanac
From the trenches of motherhood, MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection creates critical discussion about a relatable subject. An exhibition to engage and connect. Curated by Katharina Prugger and Sophie Gerhard, MOTHER removes the rose-tinted glasses; it’s raw, honest, and at times, terrifying.
Leonard Brown — Painting the Celestial - Art Almanac
A prolific artist for over five decades, Leonard Brown’s practice overlaps with his faith. Leonard Brown — Painting the Celestial delves into his history and the duality of his practice, from the minimal abstracts to the Byzantine traditional paintings and the iconographic conventions of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength - Art Almanac
The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’s Yield Strength explores twenty-four Australian artists who push the boundaries of materiality, medium, and sense of self.
Gracie Greene – It’s Time - Art Almanac
Embedded with cultural knowledge, Gracie Greene’s (1949–2025) oeuvre connects with the everyday and the storytelling of traditional narratives.
Richard Lewer: I Only Talk to God When I Want Something - Art Almanac
A reminder to moderate, to pause, and empathise, I Only Talk to God When I Want Something is a survey exhibition by Aotearoa/New Zealand-born, Narrm/Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer.
Polly Borland: Puffs - Art Almanac
“ . . . a personification of human feeling, wrought with tension, anxiety, and pain.”
Ballooning and contouring, anthropomorphic squidgy-like sculptures take centre stage in white cube aesthetics. Transcending expectations, they demand a closer inspection – one finally given to the audience by this surrealist artist. No longer bound by the photograph, Polly Borland’s oeuvre extends into three-dimensional sculptural form.
Ballooning and contouring, anthropomorphic squidgy-like sculptures take centre stage in white cube aesthetics. Transcending expectations, they demand a closer inspection – one finally given to the audience by this surrealist artist. No longer bound by the photograph, Polly Borland’s oeuvre extends into three-dimensional sculptural form.
Susie Dureau: Rhythmia
Susie Dureau’s exhibition Rhythmia at Curatorial+Co invites the viewer to tap out of the everyday and into the sublime – or rather, to tap into the everyday, where the sublime has always been waiting.
Amber Creswell Bell: About Face
Even though About Face is her sixth art book, the genre of portraiture is Amber Creswell Bell’s favourite.
Clayful | In conversation with author Sophia Cai
Clayful, published by Street Smith Books, is an adventure into the world of miniature ceramics – a juxtaposition of form and function where artists play with clay to create tiny artworks that fit in the palm of your hand.
New South: Recent painting from Southern Australia - Art Almanac
“. . . what painting in the south looks like,
and who creates it.”
New South, curated by Director Sebastian Goldspink at Hazelhurst Arts Centre, provides a snapshot into contemporary Australian painting by artists living in the southern parts of Australia.
and who creates it.”
New South, curated by Director Sebastian Goldspink at Hazelhurst Arts Centre, provides a snapshot into contemporary Australian painting by artists living in the southern parts of Australia.
Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists
“I wanted to ensure that the darkness
was balanced with lightness too.”
Curated by Talia Smith, Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists explores themes of protest, perseverance, and reimagining through the works of six artists, all aged thirty-five years and under.
was balanced with lightness too.”
Curated by Talia Smith, Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists explores themes of protest, perseverance, and reimagining through the works of six artists, all aged thirty-five years and under.
nightshifts
“The seen and the unseen.”
The “after hours” as a metaphor is explored in nightshifts at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, with the exhibition focusing on the wholistic concept of retreat – an invitation to temporary seclusion, rest, and quietness from others.
The “after hours” as a metaphor is explored in nightshifts at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, with the exhibition focusing on the wholistic concept of retreat – an invitation to temporary seclusion, rest, and quietness from others.
Artists At Home
Inspired by great women artists, such as O’Keeffe, Kngwarreye, Bourgeois, and others, writer and photographer Karina Dias Pires presents an insight into the female role models of the Australian art industry today. Spanning a range of material, painting, photography, installation, moving images, sculpture, fibre, and ceramics, Artists at Home steps inside the homes and studios of thirty-two women artists across Australia.
Rae Begley: Strange Quiet
“Strange Quiet is a meditation on time, an intimate interaction with the ecosystem of the reef, its mystery, its beauty, and its quiet fragility.”
Earth & Fire
Written by sisters Kylie and Tiffany Johnson, their second book examining the handcrafted, Earth & Fire introduces the reader to forty-five active ceramicists, their thoughts, materials, and processes when working with their chosen medium.
In the studio: Thea Anamara Perkins
“. . . it’s the vulnerable parts of myself and others that I want to engage with.”
Art Almanac sat down with recent La Prairie Art Award winner Thea Anamara Perkins who uses personal narratives in her highly detailed paintings that challenge misconceptions. The Sydney-based artist has just moved from her studio at Carriageworks Clothing Store into a home/portable studio in anticipation of a year of travelling, seeing art, and developing her technical skills.
Art Almanac sat down with recent La Prairie Art Award winner Thea Anamara Perkins who uses personal narratives in her highly detailed paintings that challenge misconceptions. The Sydney-based artist has just moved from her studio at Carriageworks Clothing Store into a home/portable studio in anticipation of a year of travelling, seeing art, and developing her technical skills.
VISION: Art, Architecture and the National Gallery of Australia
Like the building with its commandeering cement structure, the book is oversized and bold, asking to be immediately read; and invites casual page turning through striking black and white images that fill double pages – often never-before-seen photographs from NGA’s archive, including those by renowned Australian photographers David Moore and Max Dupain.
Australian Abstract
Amber Creswell Bell poses the question, “What is Abstract?” and delves into the practices of forty-one Australian abstract artists to find the answer in her fifth publication with Thames & Hudson titled Australian Abstract.
TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili
ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili is a Gagana Sāmoan proverb translating to “the canoe obeys the wind,” and is the curatorial theme of the current TarraWarra Biennial as it moves across the waters to reframe the relationships between Australia and archipelagos in south/southeast Asia and south/southwest Great Ocean.
In the studio: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
Working from his studio in rural Western Australia, Perth-born artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah explores life through his ‘magic realism’ style. Animals, mythology, and family history translate into artworks set in otherworldly installations that immerse the viewer. Abdullah offers a refreshing and honest take on his life as an artist, plus raising his three children in the bush.
Air
“. . . what it means to breathe . . .”
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) summer blockbuster exhibition, Air, brings together an expansive collection of works by over thirty international and Australian artists, each who resist, disturb, and challenge notions of ecological harmony.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) summer blockbuster exhibition, Air, brings together an expansive collection of works by over thirty international and Australian artists, each who resist, disturb, and challenge notions of ecological harmony.
Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists
Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, looks to tomorrow in a sensitive reimagining of speculative futures. The exhibition is alive, with emotions, feeling, and in sculptural form – activating the senses through textile artworks, sculptures, sound, video, smell, poetry, and documented performance.
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