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The Aussies who are part of the furniture in Milan
In April, 44 Australian creatives will exhibit during Milan Design Week. From their work, we have selected 10 favourites.
- by Karen McCartney
Latest
Review: Hans and Nora Heysen, Two Generations of Australian Art
A father and daughter affair.
- by John McDonald
Good Weekend
Art: Bec Juniper
Bec Juniper is an artist who stands in the shadow of a more famous parent with her evocative, abstracted aerial landscapes of Western Australia.
- by John McDonald
Tom Nicholson constructs a monument to Melbourne's past at ACCA
The heft and density of a brick is unmistakable, so when visitors see Tom Nicholson's installation arcing across the floor of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), they might almost feel the weight of its 3520 bricks.
- by Andrew Stephens
Spectrum
Singleminded: The power of artistic collaboration
From ‘‘active debating’’ to perfect unity – artistic collaboration comes in many styles.
- by Melanie Kembrey
Arts
Contemporary art's Instagram moment
The second instalment of The National brings together the works of 70 emerging artists, most of them women and many unrepresented by galleries.
- by Linda Morris
Arts
A bollard up a tree? St Kilda artist reframes symbols of terror
A series of public sculptures asks how anti-terror bollards fit in our quintessentially carefree Australian culture.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Art
Artist looks into the spirit of women of the Western Front
A recent trip to the Western Front in France and Belgium inspires a new perspective of war life for award-winning artist Wendy Sharpe.
- by Tony Moore
Visual art
Meet six-year-old abstract artist Ginger, whose paintings start at $1200
Six-year-old Ginger will have her body of work launched by fashion designer Alannah Hill at a solo exhibition in Potts Point, with some artworks priced at $3000.
- by Sarah Keoghan
Christchurch shooting
New Zealand artist Ruby Jones designs Time magazine cover
Her previous work attracted international acclaim and Time asked Jones to "capture the feeling from inside her country in the days following the terrorist attack".
- by Andre Chumko and Amber-Leigh Woolf
The man who made art move: Alexander Calder's restless works arrive at the NGV
Even Albert Einstein was mesmerised by the larger-than-life American who changed the course of art.
- by Lindy Percival