Artist: Georgina Cue In the midst of geometric wooden structures, plush velvet drapery and other theatrical paraphernalia, a woman sits in an exaggerated stance, sheathed in a turban and cascading gown emblazoned with striking painted pleats. Beneath her, champagne satin shrouds a make-shift cardboard floor. Her face is painted a creamy ivory, the contours of […]

Artists: Abdul Abdullah, Andrew Christie, Mona Ibrahim, Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, James Nguyen, Pet Projects, Tom Polo, Keren Ruik, Damien Shen, Salote Tawale, Shevaun Wright and 110% Curator: Megan Monte Looking at me through you is a self-reflexive exhibition that responds to Campbelltown, a rapidly changing and developing suburb 50 kms south-west of Sydney’s […]

Artists: Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, Megan Cope, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Archie Moore, Raquel Ormella, Keg de Souza and Tintin Wulia Curator: Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh In 1986 Peter Cripps, who was then Director of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), curated Recession Art and Other Strategies.[^1] The exhibition hinged on the […]

Artists: Vicki Couzens, Julie Gough, Genevieve Grieves, Dianne Jones, r e a Curator: Genevieve Grieves In the simplest terms, the history of colonialism is a history of erasure. The Australian colonial project sought to violently erase Indigenous lifeworlds and at the same time, to conceal this erasure. Authors of colonial history had a vested interest […]

Artists: Olga Bennett, Lily Benson, Fernando do Campo, William Daniels, Naomi Eller, Andrea Jewell, Annika Koops, Alex Pittendrigh, Daniel Sinsel, Ross Taylor, Michelle Ussher, Anna Varendorff, Rudi Williams, Zilverster (Sharon Goodwin & Irene Hanenbergh) Curators: Storm Gold and Kez Hughes It would be hard to talk about the CAVES off-site project, curated by Directors Storm […]

Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Pony Express, Benjamin Forster, Karen Kramer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alexandra Navratil, and Rachel Pimm with Lori E. Allen Curator: Laura McLean Attentive to the ecological devastation that marks the present, The Conversational Cosmos aims to produce a site for shared experience across species and disciplines. It disrupts the invented hierarchical culture-nature divide, […]

Artists (listed in established-emerging pairings): Zanny Begg and Shivanjani Lal; Damiano Bertoli and Anna Higgins; Jon Campbell and Kenny Pittock; Barbara Cleveland and Get to Work; DAMP and Pitcha Makin Fellas; Diena Georgetti and Spencer Harvie; Agatha Gothe-Snape and Ella Sutherland; David Haines & Joyce Hinterding and Niall Robb; Laresa Kosloff and Jessie Bullivant; Nicholas […]