Exhibitions | Australian Arts Review

AAR Ethel Spowers, The works, Yallourn 1933

How our art museums finally opened their eyes to Australian women arti...

The 1970s saw major changes in the status of women, which led to more women artists being included in exhibitions, as well as art histories conceived from a feminist perspective. Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch was pu...

Ken Unsworth: Truly, Madly

September 15 - Exhibitions

Ken Unsworth’s dynamic and gravity-defying sculptural installations, featuring resin cast skeletons, grand pianos and saw blades, will be taking over the foyer spaces at NGV Australia in his first major Melbourne sculptu...

Emblazon: Melbourne’s coat of arms

September 14 - Exhibitions

Exploring an often-unnoticed aspect of the city’s history, Melbourne’s coat of arms have been brought to life in the latest exhibition at the Town Hall’s City Gallery in Emblazon: Melbourne’s coat of arms. Melbourne̵...

AAR Southern Way McClelland John Meade and Emily Karanikolopoulos

Southern Way McClelland Commission 2018 Announced

September 12 - Creative Industries, Exhibitions

Artists John Meade and Emily Karanikolopoulos have been awarded the $250,000 Southern Way McClelland Commission 2018 for their elegant sculpture, Love Flower, to be installed in September 2019. The monumental and enchant...

Callum Morton's Monument 32- Helter Shelter 2018 - photo by Daniel Boud

Sydney Contemporary returns to Barangaroo

September 11 - Creative Industries, Exhibitions

Sydney Contemporary returns to Barangaroo for a second year with three leading Australian artists, Callum Morton, Mel O’Callaghan and Cameron Robbins, creating large-scale, site-specific works that will sit throughout th...

RMIT Gallery, Phil Ayres, Petras Vestartas, Danica Pistekova and Maria Teudt, Inflated Restrain, 2016

Dynamics of Air

September 10 - Exhibitions

Capturing the beauty, dynamics and sensuality of air in our built environment and its critical role in designing for a zero carbon future, RMIT Gallery presents Dynamics of Air from 14 September 2018. Presented in partne...

Black Mist Burnt Country

September 7 - Exhibitions

An award-winning national touring exhibition of artworks by over 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, commemorating the British atomic tests in Australia in the 1950s, is on display at the National Museum of Austral...

SLM Peter Kingston, The North Shore Line, 2018

Bohemian Harbour: Artists of Lavender Bay

September 6 - Exhibitions

The spectacular views from Sydney’s Lavender Bay have inspired generations of artists who have celebrated its great beauty. In the 1970s and early 80s the waterfront enclave became a bayside bohemia and home to some of S...