Michelle Hamer asks the audience to be present when, weirdly, time is abstracted and yet the world seems to move at break-neck pace.

Salvatore Zofrea is a celebrated painter and printmaker and this show celebrating his drawing traces the artist’s personal journey from Italy to the Australian landscape.

The Melbourne Art Fair (MAF) is on view across the weekend from 17 to 20 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre with solo presentations as well as exhibits from 53 of the region’s leading galleries.

On the weekend of 4 to 6 March Surface Festival takes to the streets of the nation’s capital with presentations of urban art.

Interdisciplinary artist Vic McEwan explores “the active role that the arts sector can play in reimagining a better world.”

Jacqueline Bradley’s exhibition ‘the tender’ is a poetic and visceral presentation that can be understood as a contemporary ‘still life’.

Culture Vault launches new NFT platform, and the exhibition ‘The Future is Phygital’ at Sydney’s Verona Studio, in March.

‘The Other Side of the Mountain’ by Karlee Rawkins is a new body of work about overcoming obstacles.

Check out the outstanding exhibitions and public programming to see out your summer at the country’s leading institutions. Enjoy!

Exclusive to Canberra, the exhibition Australians & Hollywood is on view until 17 July 2022.

‘Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary’ is a major survey exhibition of photographic works, exploring India’s relationship with photography from the 1860s to now, at Monash Gallery of Art until 20 March.

Climarte is a new art gallery in Melbourne that presents as the world’s first Climate Emergency focussed art gallery.

‘A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing’ offers another perspective to what it could be like as a young single Asian woman in Australia who defies expectation and carves her own path.

Twenty-one artists explore the possibilities of exchange and communication between humans and the natural world in ‘Birds & Language’ at Wollongong Art Gallery until 13 February 2022.

Bark Ladies shares themes of identity, Country, spirituality, time and the universe.

‘Caught in the Act’ is a memoir which strikes a delightful balance of earnest discussion and witty banter.

‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10)’ at Queensland Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) continues three decades of creative collaboration with artists across the Asia Pacific region. On view until 25 April 2022.

‘Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York: 1978-1984 / Art & Life’, curated by Virginia Rigby at Canberra Museum and Gallery brings focus to artist Mandy Martin’s (1952-2021) creative output between 1978 and 1984.

Blak Superheroes addresses and amplifies stories of representation, creating change that uplifts ourselves and mob. – Dylan Mooney.

Hyphenated Biennial aims to generate dialogues, solidarity and meaningful collaborations between First Nations and Asian diasporic artists.