Sutton Gallery stands on what always was and always will be the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We respectfully recognise their ancestors and Elders past and present. We acknowledge Aboriginal connection to material and creative practice on these lands for more than 60,000 years.
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.
Ann Debono’s work Starview II has been chosen as the frontispiece for HEAT Magazine’s latest edition (Series 3 Number 7). Published since 1996, the magazine (Giramondo Press) is a distinguished Australian literary journal renowned for its dedication to literary quality, and its commitment to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, fiction, essays and the hybrid forms.
Ann Debono’s Starview was on show at Sutton Gallery in October 2024, wherein the artist produced a suite of five monochrome paintings citing her extensive photographic study of the construction of the Westgate Bypass Flyover in Naarm/Melbourne.
Elizabeth Gower’s work Monochrome Series (2015) is included in the exhibition Shape Shifters recently opened at the Wollongong Art Gallery. Curated by Angie Cass, the exhibition examines how re-purposed materials, concepts and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects will be exhibited in a celebration of this innovation yet accessible art form.
Shape Shifters: A Retrospective of Australian Collage
Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
7 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
Works from Nicholas Mangan’s celebrated Core-Coralations (2023) series are currently on view at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery as a part of the newly opened group exhibition The Ecologies Project: How climate changes culture.
The Ecologies Project looks at the effects climate change has had on deep time of human culture. Considering generational conversations about climate, the exhibition postulates what seismic shifts to the stability of our climate might look and feel like, and thinks about what artists are creating now that will make it into a future cultural milieu. Featuring over 60 works spanning photography, painting, printmaking, installation, video and sound work, the exhibition includes work by Maree Clarke, Aunty Netty Shaw, Megan Cope, Sue Ford, Jill Orr, Rosemary Laing, Linda Tegg, Joseph Beuys, Jacobus Capone, Nicholas Mangan, Yandell Walton, among other artists.
The Ecologies Project
8 December 2024 – 16 March 2025
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
