Visual Art

In the National Gallery of Australia’s The Red Thread of History, Loose Ends, two of the country’s best artists end up speaking past each other.

In representing Australia at this year’s Venice Biennale, musician and artist Marco Fusinato offers a rebuke to nationalism.

Hoda Afshar’s remarkable work questions whether photography and film can ever be truthful documents of reality.

The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial offers an overview of the aesthetic, intellectual and political power of contemporary Indigenous art.

A Newcastle exhibition asks us to step back into the natural rhythms of time.

An Adelaide Biennial that casts a deliberately wide net looks closely at notions of freedom and the state.

Prudence Flint’s 20th solo show, Conditions for Sprouting Seeds, is an idiosyncratic psychodrama that builds on three decades of exploration.

The latest book by the award-winning writer, illustrator, musician and composer Matt Ottley is a stunning exploration of mental illness.

Seeing Eugenia Lim’s award-winning work in Denmark feels like a homecoming – and highlights her Melbourne roots.

Heide’s simultaneous exhibitions of Sidney Nolan and Dean Cross put Modernism and Indigenous aesthetics into conversation.