Melbourne's Heide Museum of Modern Art has unveiled Song of the Earth 1968-2020, a major exhibition of works by John Nixon (1949-2020), one of Australia's most influential and experimental abstract artists. On view until 9 March 2026, this extensive survey is the first to span Nixon's fifty-year career. Curated by Nixon's wife, curator and writer Sue Cramer, with Heide senior curator Melissa Keys, the exhibition presents rarely seen minimal and conceptual works from the late 1960s and 1970s, alongside Nixon's striking 1980s tableaux, in which abstract paintings are combined with readymade objects - including a grand piano, a pail of potatoes and a bicycle.
To mark the tenth anniversary of Design Tasmania's acclaimed Women in Design program, this year's edition highlights female designers whose practice centres on timber in a new exhibition titled Heartwood: Tasmanian Women in Timber. At the centre of the exhibition is a new acquisitive commission by furniture designer-maker Laura McCusker titled Forest Stand. Alongside McCusker's work in the exhibition are pieces by Tasmanian designers Sally Brown, Pippa Dickson, Linda Van Niekerk, Linda Fredheim, Gay Hawkes and Ellen Nora Payne, drawn from Design Tamsania's existing Wood Collection, and with loans from other private and public collections across the state. Heartwood: Tasmanian Women in Timber will be displayed until 8 February at Design Tasmania.
Curated by founder of Studio Gardner Joseph Gardner, this major exhibition showcases over 50 Australian artists exploring the creative process. Running until 7 February at Craft Victoria and spanning diverse mediums and scales, Done/Undone invites visitors to reflect on the fluid nature of making. Featured creatives include Rachelle Austen, Olivia Bossy, Don Cameron, Rosanna Ceravolo, Woo-Ram (Sam) Choi, Billie Civello, Riley Concannon, Max Copolov, Ashley Corbett-Smith and Bolaji Teniola, among others.
