‘Contour 556/2020’ brings Canberra’s history into sight with a showcase of work by 60 artists and three artist collectives from Lake Burley Griffin to other outdoor spaces, inner city streets and laneways, galleries and art institutions.
Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria heads the ‘Defining Moments: Lecture 5’ topic Don’t Leave Me this Way: Art in the Age of AIDS 1994, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
The 2020 ‘Liveworks: Festival of Experimental Art’ will pack a powerful and thought-provoking punch with a newly designed program of live performance at Carriageworks and livestreamed digital events online exploring some of the most pressing issues of our times.
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s international art fair is taking more than 450 new artworks by over 380 leading Australian and international artists into the digital realms for a month-long exhibition of art for sale from 1 to 31 October.
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre has been working with First Nations and culturally diverse artists on the development of a two-part exhibition series ‘Terra inFirma’, which draws on personal and shared stories of history, heritage and identity, exploring the consequences of colonisation on First Nations Peoples and communities from the Asia Pacific region, who live in Blacktown.
In celebration of Bell Shakespeare’s 30th anniversary in 2020 a new series of online conversations titled ‘The Bell Debates’ have been announced. Teams of prominent Australians working across a range of industries will go head to head in provocative debate to explore the relevance of a selection of Shakespeare’s quotes.
‘Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes’ showcases dynamic insight to the future of furniture and object design by nine design-based studios who were paired with researchers and practitioners from across a range of alternative industries in Science and Engineering.
We congratulate West Australian Sydney-based Wongutha-Yamatji artist, writer and actor Meyne Wyatt, on winning the 2020 Archibald ‘Packing Room Prize’ for his self-portrait titled Meyne. Wyatt is the first Indigenous artist to ever be awarded a prize in the annual event’s 99-year history, and he is a first-time ‘Archibald Prize’ entrant.
“In my ongoing long-term project Stories from the Room, I wish to stimulate a physical gathering by collecting parallel realities from participants and displaying them at TarraWarra Museum of Art. Through a collective act, a sense of emotional connection is generated, in the form of a community, regardless of distance,” says artist Jasphy Zheng.
‘Desert Mob’ features a major exhibition, symposium and art market. In 2020 the much-loved festivities take a leap into the digital world with new virtual experiences developed in addition to the physical in-gallery presentation of the ‘Desert Mob’ exhibition.
In Kasia Tons photographic compositions a lone figure dressed from head-to-toe in peculiar hand-crafted drapery roams the barren lands of a futuristic dystopian world.
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrates 16th, 17th and 18th century Baroque and Classical music and have recently announced the development of a new digital music platform Brandenburg One.
The inaugural ‘Global Fringe festival, is geared towards delivering an energetic program of live-streamed and on-demand events from local and international Fringe festivals, until September 30.
Fox’s Interchange Pavilion is the fourth site-specific work to be developed as part of the wider South Eveleigh public art project facilitated by Mirvac and curated by Carriageworks. It is located in the centre of the Village Square at the junction of Davy Road and Central Avenue, South Eveleigh.
Until 31 October the inaugural exhibition ‘Where I Stand’ featuring 24 striking large-scale photographic works by six talented Australian artists will be accessible to audiences around the clock on Exhibition Avenue, at the Australian National University, Canberra.
ACCA Open brings together six newly commissioned works that expand on the mediums of contemporary art, from audio, visual, video, written to interactive projects.
In Lecture 4, Doug Hall AM, writer, critic and former Director of Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, shares his knowledge and experiences of the development of the ‘First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT1) in 1993.
“Conflict in My Outlook examines the dynamics of power and control. It asks, ‘what will become of our privacy in the context of data mining, Artificial Intelligence and weapons-grade surveillance capitalism? Are data rights human rights? How can I disappear?” notes Anna Briers.
Stories of queer kinship and forms of togetherness in the LGBTQI+ community come forward in the exhibition ‘Friendship as a Way of Life’ and across the digital partner program ‘Forms of Being Together’, which are both on at UNSW Galleries, online and on social media until 21 November
In an exciting turn of events Curatorial+Co have expanded their business model to include a 300-square-metre warehouse-style gallery in Sydney’s Redfern precinct that intends to showcase contemporary artworks alongside contemporary design objects, and provide a creative meeting place for artists, designers and collectors.