Darrell Sibosado and Frances Rings light up the stage
When artists step into the theatre, the stillness of the studio meets the breath of the stage. And audiences, perhaps without even knowing, lean in.Illume is one of those collaborations, where Goolarrgon Bard visual artist Darrell Sibosado and Bangarra Dance Theatre's Artistic Director, Wirangu and Mirning woman, Frances Rings have made something luminous.In this work, light is used as more than illumination: it's a character in the performance. Darrell and Frances explore how the show brings Country to the stage and how they integrated light into the show without overwhelming the performers.
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Yolŋu Power puts Yirrkala art front and centre
Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence.It's a space of authority and deep listening that shows what art can be when it is inseparable from land, from water, from Law, and from the unbroken chain of Yolŋu knowledge.It's also the featured Winter exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, an important acknowledgement that Australian art is worthy of standing alongside the impressionist and modernist masterpieces at other state galleries.Yinimala Gumana, Gunybi Ganambarr, and Will Stubbs share their knowledge
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Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art
For much of the last century, in museums, the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were treated as something outside the main story — consigned to a footnote of history or a side room in major galleries.A new exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art wants to put the record straight.Titled 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, it puts — front and centre — the remarkable work of Indigenous artists and places them in conversation with the colonial art that often treated them as subjects, rather than as equals.Co-curator Shanysa McConville explores the exhibition and the history that lies behind it.
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Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport
From feminist beginnings to kitsch commercialism, minigolf has a rich history. But what happens when you let artists loose to design their own holes?Forget white walls and hushed tones—today we're heading to a golf course.Curator Grace Herbert explains the ideas behind Swingers, where putters are swapped for latex tails and square balls add a unique challenge.
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Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change
Arcangelo Sassolino's work captures a suspended instant: just before collapse, just after ignition. At the 2022 Venice Biennale, Sassolino paid homage to Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. But where Caravaggio painted light and shadow, Sassolino sculpts with fire and steel: molten light heated to 1500 degrees, falling from above into dark pools of water. In his latest exhibition at MONA, In the End, The Beginning, materials are pushed to their edge and sometimes beyond.
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