Witness the beauty and diversity of body adornment and decoration from Papua New Guinea in this stunning exhibition featuring photographs by Wylda Bayrón and a selection of objects from the world-renowned Pacific cultural collections of the Australian Museum. Explore the transformation of the human body into a living art form through the practice of bilas… Read More »Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
Now in its 30th year, Future Fashion has established a reputation for showcasing the exciting next generation of design talent emerging from fashion and textile courses at some of Australia’s leading institutions.
This year’s exhibition features outfits from the final year ranges of graduates from four Sydney-based institutions, illustrating their diverse design signatures and technical skills.
The 27th Sydney Design Week (2023) offers a platform to the critical research, industries, infrastructure and technologies that underpin design practice in our city, inviting plural perspectives from our local communities. The program enlists six fields of enquiry; Eco Systems, Material Cultures, Communal Cities, Micro Cycles, Connected Threads and Photofields, to explore the complex and… Read More »Sydney Design Week – Amodern
The Shape exhibition features a selection of students’ exemplary 2023 HSC major projects from Design and Technology, Industrial Technology and Textiles and Design.
Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia. In this exhibition, Hunt presents six handmade marionettes, which incorporate sculpture, ceramics, costume, woodwork, silk painting and printing on fabric. Each is modelled on an esoteric individual whose spiritual convictions defied social conventions, including artist Rosaleen Norton… Read More »Emily Hunt
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is the largest exhibition to date of the internationally renowned artist’s work. Featuring key works from all of the artist’s major photographic series, this survey highlights Sugimoto’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory, and photography’s ability to both document and invent. Employing a large-format camera and… Read More »Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture and science. Working across sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, her work examines the connections and tensions between society and the natural world.
Sculpture by the Sea will return to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition in 2024. The spectacular coastal walk was once again transformed into a 2km long sculpture park over three weeks featuring more than 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the… Read More »Sculpture by the Sea
Cerith Wyn Evans creates epic contemporary environments of light and sound in our major winter exhibition. Conceived as if the audience were strolling through a garden, the exhibition will invite visitors to meditate and contemplate their own passage through space and time. Monumental light sculptures will occupy the MCA’s double-height exhibition galleries, including F=O=U=N=T=A=I=N (2020),… Read More »Cerith Wyn Evans …. in light of the visible
Now in its 32nd year, Future Fashion showcases the next generation of Australian designers emerging from tertiary fashion and textiles courses at four Sydney-based institutions: TAFE NSW, Torrens University Australia, University of Technology Sydney and Whitehouse Institute of Design. This year’s exhibition features outfits from the final-year collections of graduates, highlighting creativity, critical thinking and… Read More »Future Fashion
Wagga Wagga–based Gamilaaray artist Juanita McLauchlan recognises the constellations above us, and the everyday pillars of family and community, as anchors we all have in common. In her first state art museum exhibition, McLauchlan presents an ambitious new body of work that draws upon the intimacy of personal belongings and body adornments. Using domestic fabrics… Read More »Juanita McLauchlan: Yilaa Minyaminyabal Maaru-ma-lda-y (Soon Everything Will Be Healing)
With a name taken from Maya Angelou’s famous book of poems, this timely exhibition focuses on a culturally diverse group of women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home. A celebration of women’s art practice, the exhibition foregrounds materiality through a wide variety of media, including textiles,… Read More »And Still I Rise