YOUR WOMAN IS A VERY BAD WOMAN is the confronting title of a new exhibition by Quishile Charan at firstdraft gallery. The title is taken from the seminal paper ‘Your Woman is a Very Bad Woman’: Revisiting Female Deviance in Colonial Fiji’ by Margaret Mishra. For the exhibition Charan has developed a textile narrative in conversation with … Continue reading YOUR WOMAN IS A VERY BAD WOMAN: EXHIBITION AT first draft GALLERY
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For their second exhibition, Cement Fondu Directors Megan Monte and Josephine Skinner have paired Turner Prize Winner Laure Prouvost (in her Australian gallery debut) with Sydney based artist Emily Parsons-Lord, in a playful and seductive multi-media exhibition intersecting human sensuality, nature and technology, SENSE. In coming weeks this will be enhanced with live music and … 
The 65th Blake Prize Finalist Exhibition is open to the public and runs until Sunday 1 July at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The Blake Prize engages contemporary artists with ideas of religion and spirituality with 80 finalists ranging from leading contemporary practitioners to emerging and self-taught artists being selected for final judging and the exhibition. … 
All photos by Ben Apfelbaum. Five-time Archibald finalists Yvette Coppersmith has won the 2018 Archibald Prize and a $100,000 for her work Self Portrait after George Lambert. In the past 21 years, Coppersmith has experimented widely with style and subject matter but she keeps returning to the self portrait which she says allows her to … 
Christien Britton presents her FOR YOUR EYES ONLY solo exhibition showcasing both acrylic & ink art pieces. Her aim is that her art pieces be explored & evaluated by each individual in order that there be a connection, engagement & personal assessment. Her acrylic pieces are highly structured geometrics which engage with a sense of … 
Following the Vatican Museums 3D and Florence and the Uffizi Gallery we now have a brand-new documentary on the life and work of Italian master Caravaggio and the birth of modern painting directed by award winning Mexican director Jesus Garces Lambert . The research is extensive – there are lots of interviews with various curators, … 
James Bugg, a 22 year-old emerging photographer from Melbourne has won the 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP). The MCPP is Australia’s richest photography prize and James took home the $50,000 prize for his photograph Zach. The announcement was made recently at Juniper Hall in Paddington, the home of the Moran Arts Foundation. The judges … 
Award-winning photographic artist Lilli Waters will unveil her latest solo exhibition, CORAL LANDS, from 20th June to 1st July at Saint Cloche gallery, Paddington. CORAL LANDS features a series of nine photographs which were elaborately constructed underwater using coral, live rock and flowers. Combining these elements with bright colours and night sky backdrops, Waters has created extraordinary, other-worldly … 
Everyone is welcome to come together with community and artists on the historic site of the Blacktown Native Institution to celebrate living Aboriginal cultures with new performance, sculpture and interactive artworks. Working with local communities, artists Tony Albert, Sharyn Egan and Moogahlin Performing Arts have responded to the site’s importance as a place of … 
Featured image – Harold Pinter by Justin Mortimer. It’s the Archibald Prize season at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and people are going in great numbers to check out this year’s exhibition which runs until the 9th September 2018. Great Britain ,also, has its own annual portrait competition called the BP (British Petroleum) … 
A most charming and delightful exhibition has just opened at Traffic Jam Galleries. Danielle McManus’ current exhibition is called NATURE’S WHIMSY. McManus is a member of the ‘stable’ of artists who regularly exhibit at Traffic Jam Galleries . This exhibition showcases her trademark style ,with the huge eyes of the human figures and incredible detail … 
Le Petit Bateau art collective presents RESET which is the first solo Australian exhibition by the Brazilian artist Eduardo Be. RESET is an expression of the artist’s metamorphosis from life in southern Brazil as a street art activist to his current home Sydney. Eduardo is renowned for his work which “intends to reach people with short and … 
I’m going to get lost was my first thought when invited to review the MALI DHARNGURR PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION: Celebrating the Stories of Strong Indigenous Women at International Towers. What a pleasure I would have missed out on had my first instincts prevailed. This is a superb exhibition of faces that carry the pride and power … 
