Consuelo Cavaniglia
Consuelo Cavaniglia’s works utilise industrial materials to produce sensory experiences that can be both beautiful and unsettling.
Yvonne Koolmatrie: Ngarrindjeri Woman
At the heart of Yvonne Koolmatrie’s work is her homeland: Ngarrindjeri country. Stretching from the lower Murray River to its mouth at the Coorong lagoon is the land of the artist’s mother and her ancestors.
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah: Throne Room
“In the seat of the old Luwu kingdom, Sulawesi Selatan, I found flags, weapons, baskets, ancient graves, streets full of drying cloves, a palace on stilts and an 800-year-old list of names that led from myth to me,” writes Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. This phantasmagoria of memories and experiences grounded in place, culture and history builds to a singular poetic sentiment: “I want to describe something that only exists in my mind. A throneroom.”
Lessons in Loss: The Juukan Gorge
On 24 May 2020, Rio Tinto detonated explosives at one of the oldest sites of human occupation on the continent, decimating a place that was both ancient and sacred. The blasts destroyed two culturally significant rock shelters, one of which had chronicled 46,000 years of Aboriginal history. Now people the whole world over know its name: the Juukan Gorge.
Emma Walker
Emma Walker’s paintings have the rare quality of stirring feelings of vague recollection within the subliminal mind. The abstract compositions, made by complex layering of paint and carving into board, are driven by the artist’s personal history and experiences of the sublime. Yet the viewer who stands before Walker’s works can catch these reveries and feel them as their own.
Lincoln Austin
Lincoln Austin’s artworks invite their audience to experience a vivid world of optical confusion. Their unique sense of colour, pattern and form excite the eye and implicate the viewer through the need for physical navigation. Through their work, Austin seeks to provide an experience of pleasure, love and humour that supersedes written language.
Stephanie Reisch
Stephanie Reisch paints with a nod to prehistory. Indistinct animal forms resonate through her abstract painterly compositions, which reach into a realm of higher consciousness, instinct and the past. Hidden within the painted surfaces can be the animals themselves – a piece of bone or tooth or claw, ground into the paint, carrying the potency of its own history.
Daan Roosegaarde
Working at the intersection of art and technology, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde is a pioneer for clean energy art projects, through which he designs solutions for a better world. Fuelled by ingenuity and imagination, the artist strives to connect audiences with the world around them.