Julie Dowling: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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Day: 10 May 2025
Euan Macleod: FLUX
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Rubaba Haider: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Rubaba Haider‘s work features in Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور, a collaborative exhibition between the Islamic Museum of Australia, La Trobe University and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. The exhibition reflects the diverse communities of artists that call or have called Australia home, specifically focusing on artists who express cultural heritage and practices from Central Asia, South Asia, West Asia, North Africa and Eastern Europe. Curated by Mahmoud Mohammed, Jacqui Shelton and Sarah Werkmeister, Rubaba Haider’s work features in Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور alongside examples by artists Abdul Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Cigdem Aydemir, Mirela Cufurovic, Fatima Killeen, Aniwar Mamat, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Naeem Rana. In addition, Rubaba Haider’s work will feature in the upcoming exhibition An Still I Rise at Art Gallery of New South Wales, opening in November. The exhibition is a celebration of women’s art practice, the exhibition foregrounds materiality through a wide variety of media, including textiles, painting, metalwork, installation and video. Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | ج And Still I Rise |
Angela Brennan: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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Steven Rendall: BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE winner
Steven Rendall is the joint winner of the Bayside Painting Prize 2025. His painting Myriad Reflector IV is now showing at Bayside Gallery, Brighton.
Ebony Truscott and Euan Heng are finalists in the Bayside Painting Prize 2025.
A celebration of contemporary Australian painting, the prize is an important opportunity for Bayside City Council to add exceptional works of art with a local connection to its collection and to promote art and artists as a valuable part of the Australian community. An exhibition of the finalists’ works opens this Friday, 9 May.
Bayside Painting Prize 2025
Bayside Gallery, Melbourne
9 May – 22 June 2025
Ebony Truscott and Steven Rendall will be exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in 2025.
Brenda L. Croft: LES RENCONTRES d’ARLES
Brenda L. Croft‘s 2024 series Naabámi (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me) will be shown in On Country: Photography from Australia at the prestigious festival Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France in July. This major exhibition is curated by PHOTO Australia’s Pippa Milne and Brendan McCleary and highlights the work of twenty Australian artists.
Croft’s important series Naabámi (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me) features portraits derived from tintypes, then printed large-scale of contemporary Australian First Nations women and girls, honouring Barangaroo, the Cammeraygal woman known for her staunch position as an unceded sovereign First Nations woman during first settler-colonial contact.
Read more in The Guardian here.
On Country: Photography from Australia
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
7 July – 5 October 2025
Bradd Westmoreland: CONNERS CONNERS
An exciting exhibition of recent paintings and prints by Bradd Westmoreland is currently on at Conners Conners, Fitzroy, ending this Saturday, 10 May.
Bradd Westmoreland: Cosmic bird song II
Conners Conners, Fitzroy
until Saturday, 10 May 2025
