Visual Art

Equal parts precise and powerful, the abstractions of Lesley Dumbrell are a study in the subjective nature of perception – and the cumulative rewards of looking closely at the world.

After another inquiry cleared the APY Art Centre Collective of wrongdoing in the ‘white hands’ saga, it can be revealed that the scandal contributed to the resignation of the National Gallery’s head curator of First Nations art.

At the independent gallery West Space, the group exhibition Stranger than Fiction explores the realities beyond mere facts in a post-truth world.

Lillian O’Neil’s collages conjure the split selves associated with female subjectivity, and the sensate experience of departing from linear time.

Kerrie Poliness’s latest series of geometrical abstractions reveals ecological vulnerabilities while proposing new ways of transferring knowledge.

In an upcoming show for Melbourne’s Now or Never festival, United Visual Artists founder Matt Clark evokes the vertigo of the present moment.

The stunning variety of works by women and non-binary artists in sis: Pacific Art blends modern and ancestral values.

A retrospective of Paul Gauguin at the National Gallery of Australia illuminates both the variety of his work and the colonisation it represented.

Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Melbourne performance group APHIDS helped to create a DIY feminist queer aesthetic that reshaped the art form globally.

Namedropping, the Museum of Old and New Art’s most expansive exhibition since 2016, explores the seductions, delights and disturbances of the human drive for status.