The Art Diary: 8 exhibitions to enjoy from around Australia

The magic of Lucio’s has drawn to it a generation of artists who have claimed it as their own. For the rest of us, it is like gaining entry to a rather special clubhouse. Lining the walls are decades of works.

Highlights include Rembrandt’s Self Portrait at the Age of 34 1640, Vermeer’s A Young Woman seated at a Virginal c.1670 and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers 1888.

An emotionally charged journey through the memories, dreamscapes, and spiritual imagination of one of Australia’s most compelling contemporary artists.

As creative disciplines become increasingly porous and interconnected, new systems, materials and technologies are rapidly changing the ways in which artists and designers can imagine and speculate on the future. 

It’s important to keep these important issues front and centre, to expose and educate people to what’s happening in the world, hopefully people will absorb and disseminate this information, that’s where change comes from, people.

They renew and affirm camp’s queer critical capacities, moving beyond popular understandings of camp as a gay sensibility, a mode of theatrical performativity, or an ironic inversion of taste.

My interest lies more in the human condition inherent in these spaces we inhabit, away from prying eyes.

Sellbach is open to what her painted beams might be building, what they might depict structurally. But this exhibition takes that ambiguity to new lyrical heights.