Briony Downes is an arts writer based in Hobart. She has worked in the arts industry for over 20 years as a writer, actor, gallery assistant, art theory tutor and fine art framer. Most recently, she spent time studying Art History through Oxford University.
As representations of contemporary life, especially the domestic and intimate, continue to be meaningful, the still life genre endures—as 16 women artists attest in a new show at Bett Gallery.
New Exuberance at Benalla Art Gallery centres how textiles permeate our lives, from clothing to design to art. Encompassing fashion house collaborations to First Nations cultural practices, the show canvasses textile practices today—and where they’re heading next.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Kandinsky is the largest showcase of the modernist’s work ever to be exhibited in Australia. What makes his abstract expressionism endure?
In a new show at Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Alex Hamilton paints urban spaces as vast landscapes.
“There’s a lot of colour, texture and subtlety.” The Queensland Art Gallery is bringing together artists working both within and beyond the traditional field of abstraction for Living Patterns.
“It’s important we connect with how we look at things in the world.” Elisa Crossing paints images within images, layering visual references in her latest show at Nancy Sever Gallery.
Moving to New York in 1969, Virginia Cuppaidge is known for her internationally revered abstract paintings. She’s now living in Australia, unveiling a carefully restored, utterly luminous, six-metre work at this week’s Sydney Contemporary.
With a new survey exhibition chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.
From quirky birthday cakes to knitting patterns, The Australian Women’s Weekly has a unique place in the Australian psyche. Now, the magazine’s memorabilia, covers and behind-the-scenes photographs are exhibiting at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Motherhood, domesticity, landscape, memory—these are just some of the experiences and memories Sally Anderson has captured in her two-decade painting practice, underpinned by a persistent blue, now showing at Edwina Corlette Gallery.
Nicola Moss’s new paintings at Arthouse Gallery, imbued with organic shapes, textures and colours, are inspired by the English gardens she visited during a trip to London last summer.
Why is clay suddenly everywhere in galleries? Intimately entwined in our everyday lives, there are currently multiple clay-centered shows happening across the country—dealing with everything from feminism to form.
