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Gordon Bennett at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
A presentation of significant Gordon Bennett works will be on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, as a part of their ‘Artists in Focus’ series. Showcasing MCA collection highlights alongside major works from private collections and the artist’s estate, the presentation curated by Tim Riley Walsh consolidates the continued importance and poignance of Bennett’s oeuvre within contemporary art today.
Joining the presentation of Bennett’s work is a communal presentation by Tiwi artists that includes pieces by Timothy Cook, Raelene Kerinauia Lampuwatu, Nina Puruntatameri, Cornelia Tipuamantumirri, Bede Tungutalum and Pedro Wonaeamirri.
MCA Collection: Artists in Focus Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney 8 February 2025 – 4 May 2025
Nicholas Mangan in ‘Deep Time Real Time’ at RMIT Design Hub Gallery
Nicholas Mangan is presenting a newly commissioned work (in collaboration with Cameron Allan McKean) in the exhibition Deep Time Real Time at the RMIT Design Hub Gallery.
The exhibition explores design’s relationship to planetary systems through two opposing time scales – ‘deep time’ and ‘real-time’. Described as a call-to-action for the agency of citizen-led ‘time literacy’, the exhibition aims to show artists working in idioms that develop new collective societal and design methodologies to respond to the complex challenges of our planet.
Deep Time Real Time: The 2025 Alastair Swayn Legacy Exhibition RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne 28 February – 11 April 2025
Brett Colquhoun, Raafat Ishak and Rosslynd Piggott at Gertrude Contemporary
Seminal works by Brett Colquhoun, Raafat Ishak and Rosslynd Piggott are now on show at Gertrude Contemporary as a part their landmark anniversary exhibition, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995. Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, the group exhibition takes a speculative look at the span of more than thirty artists’ works shown during Gertrude’s formative years, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of this era.
Including artworks rarely seen in almost 40 years, the ‘fictional retrospective’ explores how works from this era have retained a timeliness and contemporary relevance through their diverse explorations of cultural and artistic identities; painting both figurative and abstract; the staged and cinematic.
A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995 Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne 8 February – 23 March 2025
To celebrate her first major survey show at an Australian institution, artist and author Cherine Fahd sat down with Nusra Latif Qureshi at her exhibition Birds in Far Pavilions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Discussing depictions of women, the self and broader themes of identity in her work, the interview explores the “tradition-interrupting” show through a deep dive into the artist’s methodologies, conceptual rationale and historical approach.
