Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands’ first regional art gallery, will present the work of four contemporary Australian artists; Karen Black, Georgia Spain, Cybele Cox and Michelle Ussher. On display from 3 June – 6 August 2023, the exhibition titled Once More With Feeling will see the artists exhibiting together for the first time, using sculpture, painting and sound to investigate the relationship between the human form and culture, femininity, sexuality, theatre and ritual.

Once More With Feeling will invite viewers to explore how ideals around femininity could be explored through alternative perspectives. With a focus on shapes, expressions and actions that are associated with the female bodies, the works expose moments in which mundane behaviours and movements blend into acts of modern ritual, as well as experimenting with themes of occultism and theatre, allowing the body to be re-examined within a collaborative space.

From creating and making etchings at an Italian-inspired ‘Print Kitchen’, to exploring the role of First Nations design, and examining historical and contemporary publishing practices, the 2023 Melbourne Art Book Fair offers audiences the opportunity to discover some of the world’s best independent publishers, art book makers, authors, galleries and more.

Curated by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as part of Melbourne Design Week, 18 to 28 May, and celebrating Melbourne’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature, the 2023 Melbourne Art Book Fair features a diverse program of workshops, talks, symposiums, readings, performances, exhibitions, and launches at venues across Victoria.

Eight plush wall hanging sculptural works, ranging from small to large scale, are encased by Temin’s signature medium of synthetic fur in Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Unified in a dusty pink palate, the works are individually sewn, stuffed, and covered with a soft, cuddly, toy-like, artificial fabric, challenging conventions of both taste and art history. Craft activities from the 1970s are combined with Minimalism that includes the grid, repetition, and the monochrome as objects for personal and collective remembering.

The exhibition Wall Works invokes notions of suburbia and interior design, structured around the tension between the familiar and the strange, the organic and the artificial, the literal and the metaphoric, the minimal and the anthropomorphic.

Powerhouse has announced 1001 Remarkable Objects, a new exhibition opening 22 July 2023, led by Leo Schofield AM.

Leo Schofield AM has worked in collaboration with advisors Ronan Sulich, Mark Sutcliffe and Powerhouse curator Eva Czernis-Ryl to select 1001 objects from the 500,000 objects within the collection,  including objects that have never been exhibited before alongside much loved collection icons.

Exhibition designers Pip Runciman, Julie Lynch, and Ross Wallace have created an exhibition that features 25 individual rooms, presenting an unexpected juxtaposition of objects that will lead us on a journey across time and memory. Powerhouse collection objects will be presented across the applied arts and applied sciences including the decorative arts, jewellery, costume, textiles, furniture, clocks, musical instruments, industrial design and social history.

The University of Melbourne today announced nightshifts, a contemplative new group exhibition considering the importance of solitude through contemporary arts practice. Presented at Buxton Contemporary from 26 May to 29 October 2023, the large-scale exhibition features more than 30 works drawn from the University of Melbourne’s art collection, alongside select loans and new commissions.

Curated by Hannah Presley and Annika Aitken, nightshifts looks to the ‘after hours’ as a metaphor to explore the potentially generative qualities of rest, privacy and temporary seclusion from peers and the public. Spanning a range of themes, histories and media, the exhibition offers a meditative counterpoint to the recurring emphasis on light and collaboration in art making and contemporary curatorial practice.