CURRENT
LIVING PATTERNS at QAGOMA curated by Ellie Buttrose
‘Living Patterns Contemporary Australian Abstraction’ at the Queensland Art Gallery until 11 February 2024, features the work of contemporary Australian artists who deploy methods of abstraction — obfuscation, codification, reduction — to create their artworks. Mediums vary — from painting and conceptual techniques to sculpture and digital imagery — as do the artists’ concerns, which include topics such as queer identities, Aboriginal cosmology, international politics and intersections of global art history.
THE FAUVETTE LOUREIRO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - TRAVEL at SCA Galleries
The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarships support Sydney College of Arts (SCA) graduates to pursue a program of professional development through international or domestic travel. The scholarships are open to all SCA alumni across two categories: a $10,000 Emerging Scholarship and a $30,000 Mid-career/Established Scholarship. Drawing from the wealth of talent from SCA graduates, the Fauvette exhibition has cemented a strong reputation for quality in contemporary art. The recipients and finalists include some of the most prominent contemporary artists in Australia.
The 2023 finalists include: Mid-Career/Established Finalists: Lauren Brincat, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Marley Dawson and Clare Milledge. Emerging Finalists: Georgia Banks, Dylan Batty, Szymon Dorabialski, Morgan Hogg, Anna May Kirk, and Danica I. J. Knežević
UPCOMING
FROM THE OTHER SIDE at ACCA curated by Elyse Goldfinch and Jessica Clark
From the other side brings together twenty Australian and international artists, integrating historical and contemporary works, alongside key new commissions that draw upon horror’s capacity to transgress and destabilise forms of power and subjugation. The exhibition summons the impulse for rage and revenge, while embracing feelings of vulnerability and unease. Rather than speculating on the field of horror as a whole, the exhibition embeds and casts a lens upon feminist, queer and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre.
