The Open Air project features satellite data interpreted and coloured to produce beautiful, surreal images of Australian landforms.
Moliere Dimanche would use anything he could scrounge up – pieces of folders, the back of commissary forms, old letters – as canvases.
Moliere Dimanche
From solitary confinement, Moliere Dimanche started drawing on anything he could find. The result was a series of fantastical, allegorical images that depict abuse, racism and profound isolation.
Sidney Nolan’s Steve Hart dressed as a girl 1947 from the Ned Kelly series 1946 – 1947 enamel paint on composition board 90.60 x 121.10 cm.
Gift of Sunday Reed 1977 National Gallery of Australia
As a bushranger in the Kelly gang, Steve Hart took to dressing as a woman and riding side-saddle to avoid detection. Sidney Nolan’s painting captures Hart’s adolescent cockiness, bravery, and foolhardy bluster.
Science and art meet on the ‘big screen’ – turning data into visuals at the Lovell Telescope, Jodrell Bank.
Peter Thomas of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (left), Marcel Dionne of Roarockit (centre) and Jaimie Isaac, curator for Indigenous/Contemporary at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (right), are seen building a skateboard using a do-it-yourself kit in this 2017 photo. Art and design schools should reward those who actually build and create more than they do design theorists.
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Even as our world goes digital, there will always be an appetite for craftsmanship, for art and for the work only human hands can truly bring to life. Art and design schools should celebrate creators.
A scene from the best-selling ‘Red: A Haida Manga,’ a revenge story.
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Despite the beauty and novelty of the objects in the NMA’s new exhibition of Islamic art, the exhibition misses opportunities to make Islamic cultures comprehensible.
The art and design industry in Australia is demanding ‘mass customisation’ of works of art. Robots may be the answer – and they’re creating jobs already.
It’s been argued the Impressionists were short sighted.
The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, Camille Pissarro/Wikimedia Commons
ABC’s cancellation of the hit reboot Roseanne because of its star’s racist tweet raises complex questions about freedom of speech and the line between public and private selves in the age of social media.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne