eX de Medici’s The System 2023 (dressmaker: Michael Marendy) is based on her three-panel watercolour System (This is the Place Where the Martyrs Grow) 2023 (illustrated). It is the second garment the artist has collaborated on, the first being Shotgun Wedding Dress/Cleave 2015 (dressmaker: Gloria Grady Design (illustrated), which is on display in ‘eX de…
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Exploring the 40-year career of leading Australian artist eX de Medici, ‘Beautiful Wickedness’ focuses on her meticulous, panoramic watercolours and traces the genesis of her practice through formative artworks. Throughout her practice, de Medici has remained true to her early Punk principles — a suspicion of authority, an ethos of political agitation and a disrespect…
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Textiles have defined nationalities, facilitated cultural exchanges, and played a role in the rise and fall of empires, drawn from the QAGOMA Collection, the exhibition ‘I can spin skies’ at the Queensland Art Gallery focuses on a breadth of textile practices — and art influenced by textile production — from across the broader geography and…
Michael Zavros was an Australian national showjumper as a teenager, so thoroughbreads are in his blood. During the Royal Queensland Show — which locals have affectionately shortened the name to ‘Ekka’ — we look at a range of works that delve into the artist’s interest in horses, including centaurs and the mystique of the cowboy.…
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In recent years, still life has been a pillar of Michael Zavros’s painting practice. ‘Michael Zavros: The Favourite’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane until 2 October 2023 incorporates more than 100 works, primarily paintings but with diversions into sculpture, video, photography and performance. Before you peek at the artwork titles below,…
Experience more than 60 contemporary and historical works from the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian Art collection when the exhibition ‘I, Object’ tours to six Queensland venues — Rockhampton, Caboolture, Toowoomba, Ipswich, Cairns, and Mackay. ‘I, Object’ features contemporary painting, sculpture, and installation by leading Queensland artists Vernon Ah Kee (neither pride nor courage 2006 illustrated), Tony…
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