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A screenprint show developed by the Yogyakarta printmaking collective Krack! should be enough to generate excitement among those of us interested in the international artworld.

The Gooniyandi artist’s new show Stolen Wages chronicles the lives of Aboriginal mustering workers like himself and his father – who was never paid in his lifetime.

During the peak of one of Perth’s hottest summers, Polarity: Fire & Ice at Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) is yet another timely call for meditations on ecological change brought about by global warming.

Western Australia’s idyllic tourist spot is better known for quokkas – but Wadjemup, as it’s known to Noongar people, has a 30,000-year history, and a painful colonial past.

Several years ago, when being shown around an exhibition under preparation with a Nobel prize-winning guest, an academic colleague asked what one of the install crew was doing high above on a scissor lift. When told he was moving a speaker 5mm to the left, my colleague...

Bodywork curated by Erin Coates for Fremantle Arts Centre offers a loose take on the subject of human plasticity.

As COVID-19 hit around the world, artist Michelle Hamer's inbox was deluged with signs about the virus.

In an advertisement from 1999 for the Sony PlayStation by Chris Cunningham, an adolescent girl in a spare white-walled room presents an impressively succinct critique of the universalism and technocratic optimism of much twentieth-century thought.

The Fremantle Art Centre, south of Perth is providing a much-needed focus in the field of cross-cultural exhibition making.

The warped and surreal nature of Paul Kaptein’s sculptures are even more startling when you consider the medium: Kaptein hand-carves each piece from wood.

Dani Marti’s latest exhibition Black Sun has hit Western Australian shores with a jolt that will leave you in mixed emotions, and that is exactly the artist’s intention.

With four decades under the belt, it seems apt for the prize that four artists are awarded first place with their collaborative work Elastics / Borrocha / Elastico.

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions from around the world. Our list includes the second solo exhibition of Cristóbal Lehyt, Iris Sheets II: This Time It’s Personal, at Johannes Vogt Gallery in New York, a show marrying photography, painting and...