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Read • Painting draws on Fijian textile & pottery practices
William Bakalevu discovered his passion for painting at 37 years of age after relocating from Suva, the capital city of Fiji, to his ancestral village … -
Read • Significant events & rituals dedicated to the Goddess of Rice
Indonesian printmaker Muhlis Lugis’s large-scale woodcuts explore his cultural heritage by reflecting and recontextualising aspects of Bugis customs, philosophy and mythology. Grounded in … -
Read • Textile installation draws on personal narratives & photographic archives
Haji Oh's textile installation Seabird Habitats 2022 installed in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial, is a single tableau of seven suspended woven panels that … -
Read • Finding beauty in the overlooked & meaning in the forgotten
Lê Thuý is a skilled practitioner of the traditional Vietnamese arts of silk and lacquer painting, highlighting their beauty and their cultural and religious value … -
Read • Haus Yuriyal present a grand display of cultural expression
Haus Yuriyal is a collective of Papua New Guinean men who gather to work in a circular house traditional to the Jiwaka region of PNG … -
Read • Puppetry centres on a world of animal outcasts
Zhang Xu Zhan’s wildly inventive stop-motion puppetry centres on a darkly comic world of animal outcasts. Based on correspondences between folktales across cultures … -
Read • Art restores cultural & environmental relationships
Aotearoa New Zealand's Artists for Waiapu Action — shortened to AWA — which means ‘river’ in Te Reo Māori — is a collaboration between photographer Natalie Robertson … -
Read • Departure: An ongoing community art project
Christine Ko and Louis Lim reflect on their participation in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial. This is part three of a series that captures reflections … -
Read • House of Alexander: Togather
Aniway Aquilizan reflects on their participation in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial. This is part two of a series that captures reflections from participants involved … -
Read • Institutions need us
Aniway Aquilizan reflects on their participation in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial. This is part one of a series that captures reflections from participants involved … -
Read • Melting pigment-infused block of ice creates a hypnotic effect
Dawn Ng’s work across a wide range of contemporary media is unified by subtle gradations of colour, which function as a way of exploring … -
Read • Installation provides a portal into Aotearoa New Zealand’s history
The title of Brett Graham’s installation, Tai Moana Tai Tangata, brings together the ocean that surrounds his homeland Aotearoa New Zealand — the moana — with … -
Read • Oral histories retold in breathtaking 6-metre-long woodcut print
Nepal and the surrounding region officially recognises 60 Indigenous nationalities as ‘Adivasi-Janajati’, which make up more than a third of the country’s total … -
Read • Decorative ceiling appropriates a ship’s outer edge
Brisbane-based Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian South Sea Islander whose research-driven practice examines the historical practice of ‘blackbirding’, which is … -
Read • Art that needs a closer look
Spanning both the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), the artists in ‘The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ consider knowledge … -
Read • Three exciting figures of contemporary Asia Pacific Cinema
As part of Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema, the Australian Cinémathèque at the Gallery of Modern Art is showcasing films by three of the most innovative … -
Read • It’s like Captain Cook’s axe
Zac Langdon-Pole is interested in re-contextualising how certain histories, materials, people and processes shape our understanding of the world. Another World Inside this … -
Read • Approach to material & process honours Country
D Harding’s approach to material and process honours the artist's Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal Country around the Carnarvon Ranges (Kooramindanjie) in Central Queensland … -
Read • Large-scale mural preserves the past
The expansive mural Tul-an sang aton kamal-aman (Bones of our elders) 2024 commissioned for the Gallery of Modern Art's Pavilion Walk wall … -
Read • The imaginings of our future
Rithika Merchant’s distinctive paintings — installed in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery, the interactive project within the Children's Art …