Suggested Reading
Reparative Gestures
Healing: Art & Institutional Care, at La Trobe Art Institute, suggests a methodology on how galleries and exhibitions can repair complicated tensions.
Emma-Kate Wilson
Lionel Fogarty’s Poetry in Motion
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
Timmah Ball
Tschabalala Self is Figuring it Out
A search for beauty is behind Skin tight, the first solo exhibition in Australia for the American artist Tschabalala Self, whose works (on view at ACCA) seek to alter the power dynamic between viewer and subject.
Oliver Giles
Life Cycles with Betty Kuntiwa Pumani
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
Emma O'Neill
Grace Wood: Holding snails, snakes, and a grandmother’s legacy
Grace Wood’s new exhibition for Heide Museum of Modern Art intertwines personal, familial, and artistic archives. Consisting of textile and digital collage, Wood traces lines of inheritance and influence to position the garden as a site of both personal and artistic cultivation.
Amelia Wallin
Ghosts in the Machine
In a world in which the new wave of AI is reframing our relationship with creative labour, how do artists negotiate an impending crisis of relevance and understand the true value of their work? Stephanie Wood reports.