Visual Art

For French artist Laure Prouvost, the idea of the grandmother – symbolised in the Palaeolithic figurine the Venus of Willendorf – breaks the boundaries between the real and the surreal.

The 18th Adelaide Biennial, Inner Sanctum, invites us to reimagine both our internal and external worlds.

Archie Moore is preparing to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale – as only the second solo Indigenous artist to do so – with works inspired by his family’s history.

The Brisbane Portrait Prize’s allowance of AI-generated entries has sparked angry debate and photographer boycotts in what has become a ‘Rubik’s cube of moral and ethical dilemmas’.

The 24th Biennale of Sydney’s opening event, Lights On, showcased some truly impressive art – with some forcible reminders of embedded inequities.

Groundbreaking American video and performance artist Joan Jonas – on show for the first time in Australia at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts – prompts us to reconsider our perspectives.

The largest retrospective of Yhonnie Scarce’s work to date, The Light of Day at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, illuminates a sinister history.

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Tacita Dean exhibition reveals an artist whose work movingly explores the processes of mortality.

The Louise Bourgeois exhibition reveals an artist of feral majesty and range.

After his biggest year yet, artist Ash Keating feels he has returned to his first excitement with painting.