Margaret Preston helped define Australian modern art but took from First Nations artists to do it

After World War I, Margaret Preston embarked on a quest to create a unique, national art identity — but she took from First ...
The Conversation

These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

Grace Crowley, Les baigneuses (The bathers), 1928, oil on canvas on hardboard, 45.2 × 64.2 cm. National Gallery of Australia, gift of the artist 1979 © Reproduced ...
Hyperallergic

Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...
Forbes

Sacred Contemporary Aboriginal Art From Australia At Gruin Gallery in Los Angeles

Australian-born and Los Angeles-based, Emerald Gruin has cornered a unique market in the contemporary art scene. Her eponymous Gruin Gallery features Australian artists from a diverse array of ...
The Conversation

Jack Ball wins the Ramsay Art Prize among a who’s who of Australian young contemporary artists

Jack Ball, a Sydney-based trans artist, was awarded the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia for an immersive installation Heavy Grit. The inspiration for the photo-collage and ...
Artnet

Australian Indigenous Art Gets an International Spotlight With a London Gallery Show

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest—both institutional and from collectors—in Australian First Nations art. No longer confined to the margins of the market, a select number of ...
e-flux

2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres

The Art Gallery of South Australia has announced the artist line-up and the curatorial theme for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres: Abdul Abdullah (NSW) Mike Bianco (WA) ...
Asia Society

Language in Country: Uncovering Indigenous Stories Through Art

Join us at Asia Society Japan’s Art for Breakfast as we welcome Australian contemporary artist Robert Andrew, who will share insights into his practice and his work featured in the upcoming Aichi ...
Artnet

Australia’s Artspace Reopens After a Multi-Million Dollar Revamp, Aiming to Play a Bigger Role in Asia-Pacific’s Contemporary Art Scene

The 40-year-old Sydney institution will be able to stage greater variety of exhibitions, events, as well as artist residencies. DunnHillam Architects, Architect’s render of The Gunnery featuring ...
nytimes.com

Indigenous Australian Art Takes Center Stage at TEFAF Maastricht

This year’s fair will include a booth dedicated solely to First Nations Australian art, from bark paintings to works by Emily Kam Kngwarray. By Will Higginbotham In a first for TEFAF Maastricht, ...

Why this Sidney Nolan painting was a breakthrough moment for Australian modern art – video

Senior curator Denise Mimmocchi explains why Kiata was a breakthrough painting for Sidney Nolan, and also a breakthrough moment for Australian modern art ...