“An overriding concern has been a return, again and again, to thinking about the human condition – the craziness we all face in our individual and collective struggles, in attempting to hold our lives together in some meaningful way,” says the artist Brent Harris, reflecting on his retrospective show.
Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney kicks off the year with a compelling showcase featuring two significant bodies of work by renowned Aboriginal artist Tony Albert.
Touted as Japan’s most successful living artist, Yayoi Kusama’s famed and iconic Pumpkin sculpture has just landed in Australia, at Pt. Leo Estate Sculpture Park.
Converting two cabins into an artist’s sanctuary, Bassano by Tom Robertson Architects and Simone Haag blends old and new while respecting the farmhouse vernacular.
Functional artist Olive Gill-Hille transforms timber remnants into exquisite forms of art; where a respectful approach ensures the material remains as visible as the artists’ hand. Her second solo exhibition – Asymptote – is on now at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.
Art leads the way in New Delhi with the return of the much-anticipated Delhi Contemporary Art Week.
Korean artist and designer Kwangho Lee is renowned for making furniture and objects that are equal parts art and design. In Australia for Sydney Design Week, he sat down for an exclusive interview with Habitus editor Aleesha Callahan.
Showing as part of Sydney Contemporary 2023, Sophie Gannon Gallery will present the work of three rising stars in the art world – each very different explorations in practice yet unified by universal themes.
“Waring has layered personal, social and cultural histories in these works. Many are titled with women’s names of an earlier era, a homage to the friends of Waring’s mother whom he remembers in their drinking and partying heyday; occasions where glasses were filled to the brim with colour and clinking to life,” Edward Waring draws on memory to create a colourful glass installations at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.
Working within the expanded field of painting, Lara Merrett is part alchemist, artist, and ecological warrior.
The title of one of the works in this exhibition, The Impossibility of Swans, could just as easily be the Impossibility of Jonathan Dalton. This is an artist, who paints with such realist finesse, with distortions and refractions all accounted for, that no equivocation is present. Yet his works are rife with misdirection and metaphor.
Print Kitchen will play with the connection between printmaking and food-making, presented underneath the spectacularly beautiful stained glass ceiling of the NGV Great Hall for the duration of the Melbourne Art Book Fair. In the lead up to the event, we chat with the multi-talented creative behind the concept – Artek Halpern-Laurence.