Visual Art

This year’s NGV Triennial is a site of topological turmoil that presents artworks to the masses but also empties them of substance.

The poet and artist Bella Li says that if it weren’t for deadlines – and the inspiration provided by tennis players – she would never finish her work.

No Show, Carriageworks’ lively group exhibition of emerging and experimental art, is full of unexpected gems.

Multidisciplinary artist Abdul Abdullah has found that the pandemic has made him refocus his practice on painting, even as it has taught him to aim for balance.

AGNSW’s eye-opening exhibition of modernist sculptor Margel Hinder rehabilitates the luminous work of a major Australian artist.

Know My Name, a thrilling exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, pays tribute to the radical achievements of Australian women artists – while reminding us that representation is only the beginning of structural change.

TIWI, a major exhibition of Tiwi art at NGV Australia, showcases a luminous body of work – but it still doesn’t quite grapple with the colonial history of curation.

The Otolith Group’s Xenogenesis draws on science fiction to create an unsettling mirror of our present time.

We must support Australian artists in their most ambitious visions to understand the seismic shifts of our time.

After the tumult of 2020, Kudjla–Gangalu artist Daniel Boyd aims to find the beauty within chaos, as he continues to reframe the mythologies of colonialism.