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Patrick Mung Mung’s solo exhibition is on at Niagara Galleries, Naarm/Melbourne until 20 December 2025.His paintings car...
11/12/2025

Patrick Mung Mung’s solo exhibition is on at Niagara Galleries, Naarm/Melbourne until 20 December 2025.

His paintings carry the pulse of Ngarrgooroon Country, where earth pigments become memory and movement. Ochres dug from his mother’s Country meet the bright blue of rivers and waterholes, forming a rhythm that feels both ancient and intensely alive.

Across these surfaces, the land reveals itself as a living presence: layered, storied, and held within cultural law. Each mark opens a passage into ancestral knowledge, honouring the ceremonies, songs, and teachings that continue to shape community today.

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1. Patrick Mung Mung, 'Untitled (WAC-82/25)', 2025, natural ochres on canvas, 120 x 120cm
2. Patrick Mung Mung, 'Ngarrgooroon Country; My Texas (WAC-100/25)', 2025, natural ochres on canvas, 100 x 100cm
3. Patrick Mung Mung, 'Untitled (WAC 489/24)', 2024, natural ochres on canvas, 120 x 120cm
4. Patrick Mung Mung, 'Ngargaroon Country (Texas); Red Butte, Horse Creek and Meriyin (WAC-455/24)', 2024, natural ochres on canvas, 120 x 120cm

Courtesy of the artist, Niagara Galleries & Warmun Art Centre

Daniel Boyd’s ‘I’m Going’ is on at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 19 December 2025.Boyd’s newest bo...
10/12/2025

Daniel Boyd’s ‘I’m Going’ is on at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 19 December 2025.

Boyd’s newest body of work pulls us into a shifting field of vision, where historical certainty splinters and long-circulated colonial narratives lose their grip. Working from mid-century educational pamphlets once used to shape a narrow picture of Australia, Boyd transforms these images through his signature lensing technique, creating paintings that flicker between presence and absence. His mirrored installation deepens this experience, drawing viewers into a space where perception becomes both a question and an active responsibility.

The works move with you, inviting reflection on how stories are inherited, redacted and reimagined, and how the past continues to shimmer just beneath the surface of our present.

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Installation view, 'Daniel Boyd: I'm Going', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (22 November – 19 December 2025). Photo: David Suyasa
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

| LISA WAUPWritten by Alexia Petsinis“I’m like a bowerbird in some ways. I’m always gathering and collecting materials...
09/12/2025

| LISA WAUP
Written by Alexia Petsinis

“I’m like a bowerbird in some ways. I’m always gathering and collecting materials,” says mixed-cultural First Nations artist Lisa Waup.

With a multidisciplinary practice spanning printmaking, photography, sculpture, textiles and digital art, Waup’s Naarm/Melbourne based studio is one busy nest. Materials, however, are not an end in themselves. They ‘speak’ to the artist, carrying stories, narratives and embedded histories that intuitively guide her creative process. Whether sculpted in steel or printed onto a silk skirt, Waup’s work also becomes a vehicle for storytelling. Her visual language expresses truths about family, culture and identity, reflecting a deep connection to Country....

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1. LISA WAUP, 'Mother Country', Installation view, Muddy Edges, 2024 Gertrude Glasshouse Printed at Spacecraft .Photo: Christian Capurro
3. LISA WAUP, 'Holding Country', 2024 Installation view, the veil, Buxton Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne, 2025 Photo: Christian Capurro
5. LISA WAUP, 'Embedded Memory', 2024 Level Crossing Removal Project, Art Services by (WRAP) Weston Rumbold Art Projects
Fabricated at Sculpture Co. Photo: Fred Kroh
7. LISA WAUP, 'Embedded Memory', 2024 Level Crossing Removal Project, Art Services by (WRAP) Weston Rumbold Art Projects
Fabricated at Sculpture Co. Photo: Fred Kroh

All images courtesy of the artist

Alberto Pitta’s ‘Mariwô: A Estética do Deslocamento’ is on at Ames Yavuz, London until 18 December 2025.Pitta’s Mariwô s...
08/12/2025

Alberto Pitta’s ‘Mariwô: A Estética do Deslocamento’ is on at Ames Yavuz, London until 18 December 2025.

Pitta’s Mariwô series transforms the sacred Oil Palm frond into vibrant, abstracted motifs across screen-printed and painted textiles. Drawing on Afro-Bahian cultural traditions, Carnival blocos, and the spiritual legacy of Candomblé, his works trace histories of ancestry, resistance, and celebration. The fronds, ritual objects in sacred spaces, become symbols of protection, community, and collective joy.

Through these pieces, Pitta invites viewers to navigate the intersections of memory, spirituality, and contemporary expression, foregrounding the power of art as a tool for cultural affirmation and liberation. His practice balances devotion, storytelling, and a deep commitment to connecting art with lived experience.

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Installation view of Alberto Pitta, 'Mariwô: A Estética do Deslocamento', Ames Yavuz, London, 2025. Photographed by Andy Keate.

Courtesy of the artist and Ames Yavuz

Séraphine Pick’s ‘Twenty 25’ is on at STATION, Naarm/Melbourne until 24 January 2026.Pick presents a new suite of painti...
08/12/2025

Séraphine Pick’s ‘Twenty 25’ is on at STATION, Naarm/Melbourne until 24 January 2026.

Pick presents a new suite of paintings that dwell in the space between memory and presence, exploring how moments once imagined as distant are now realised and charged with immediacy. Through figments of recollection and reflection on digital image culture, her works inhabit a tension where meaning remains fluid, continually renewed with each viewing. The body, perception, and consciousness converge on canvas, offering subtle gestures and ambiguous forms that invite the viewer to dwell, reflect, and feel the weight of the contemporary moment.

‘Twenty 25’ is a meditation on presence, instability, and the delicate interplay of time, memory, and perception.

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1. Séraphine Pick, 'Glitch', 2025, oil on linen, 200.0 x 165.0 cm
2. Séraphine Pick, 'Cache', 2025, oil on board, 25.0 x 20.0 cm
3. Séraphine Pick, 'Daemon', 2025, oil on linen, 130.0 x 105.0 cm
4. Séraphine Pick, 'Lag', 2025, oil on board, 30.0 x 25.0 cm

Courtesy of STATION and the artist. Photo: Simon Strong

‘Highlights 2025’ is on at Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Naarm/Melbourne until 13 December 2025.A celebration of the gallery’...
04/12/2025

‘Highlights 2025’ is on at Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Naarm/Melbourne until 13 December 2025.

A celebration of the gallery’s first year in its St Kilda home, the exhibition brings together a curated selection of works by artists who shaped its premiere program. Painting, sculpture and mixed media sit in lively dialogue, tracing the distinctive approaches, material curiosities and conceptual threads that have defined the space’s inaugural season.

Seen together, these works form a dynamic snapshot of practice across generations, revealing the energy and experimentation that underpin the gallery’s expanding community. ‘Highlights 2025’ becomes both a reflection and a marker, honouring the momentum of the year while gesturing toward what is still to come.

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'Highlights 2025' - Install Image. Courtesy of Jacob Hoerner Galleries

James Drinkwater’s ‘Anchored by the Sun’ is on at Nanda\Hobbs, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 19 December 2025.Light, memo...
03/12/2025

James Drinkwater’s ‘Anchored by the Sun’ is on at Nanda\Hobbs, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 19 December 2025.

Light, memory and the quiet pulse of domestic life move through these paintings, where colour becomes a way of holding moments that might otherwise slip away. Drinkwater gathers the tender rhythms of the everyday and lets them surface through texture and gesture, creating works that feel lived rather than made. Morning light across a table, the trace of conversation, the soft weight of routine; each canvas becomes a small act of devotion to the ordinary.

‘Anchored by the Sun’ turns these fragments into something luminous, reminding us of the beauty found in paying attention.

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1. James Drinkwater, 'Piazza XX Settembre', (detail) 2011-2025, Assemblage with sungold frame, 108 x 168cm (including frame)
2. James Drinkwater, 'Fontana Degli Unicorni',(detail) 2025, Oil on linen, 180 x 240cm
3. James Drinkwater, 'Della Pescheria',(detail) 2025, Oil on linen with ornate frame, 100 x 86cm (including frame)

Courtesy of Nanda\Hobbs

| Upfront DecemberCheck out our list of must-see shows for this month, featured in Issue 52! 5th National Indigenous A...
02/12/2025

| Upfront December

Check out our list of must-see shows for this month, featured in Issue 52!

5th National Indigenous Art Triennial – After the Rain
NGA, Kamberri/Canberra
Until 26 April 2026
Artistic Director Tony Albert leads this powerful Triennial, bringing together artists across generations to explore renewal, rebirth, and cleansing. The exhibition celebrates community, kinship, and collaboration.

Olafur Eliasson: Presence
QAGOMA, Meanjin/Brisbane
Until 12 July 2026
Eliasson presents early works and site-specific installations never before seen in Australia. Drawing on natural phenomena, the exhibition encourages viewers to consider human impact, our place in the world, and the potential of art as interactive experience.

Tarnanthi – Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi
AGSA, Tarndanya/Adelaide
Until 18 January 2026
Marking a decade of the festival, this landmark exhibition brings together over 200 works from past Tarnanthi commissions and artists. Celebrating the vibrancy of First Nations contemporary art.

PLAY!
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Ngurra Country/Blue Mountains
Until 15 February 2026
This interactive exhibition transforms the gallery into a space of playful engagement, exploring creativity, inclusivity, and connection. Featuring works by eight artists, PLAY! celebrates curiosity, collaboration, and the joy of shared experiences across generations.



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1. ARETHA BROWN, 'Rise!' (detail), 2023 © Aretha Brown Courtesy of the artist and Greenpeace, Gadigal Country
2. OLAFUR ELIASSON, 'Beauty', 1993. Installation view, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 2022. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio. Courtesy of QAGOMA © 1993 Olafur Eliasson
3. Installation view, Kulata Tjuta, 2017 Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia. Courtesy of AGSA, Tarndanya/ Adelaide: SANNÉ MESTROM, 'Lucid Folly', 2022, NGA, Kamberri/ Canberra. Photo: Kerrie Brewer

Shireen Taweel’s ‘Between Science and the Sublime’ is on at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco until 20 December 2025.Copp...
01/12/2025

Shireen Taweel’s ‘Between Science and the Sublime’ is on at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco until 20 December 2025.

Copper becomes a vessel for worlds both ancient and imagined as Taweel traces the entanglement of science, navigation and spirituality. Her engraved sculptures glow with pierced geometries that recall astrolabes, qibla compasses and sextants, instruments reimagined as tools for charting futures beyond Earth. Light pools through latticed metal, suggesting not only orientation but gathering, care and collective imagining.

Alongside these sculptural devices, aquatint prints shimmer with cinnabar atmospheres and celestial orbs, expansive terrains where astronomy becomes mythic architecture.

The works invite a rethinking of exploration itself, shifting it from conquest toward connection, from singular discovery to shared cosmologies shaped by many hands.

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1. Portrait of Shireen Taweel. Photo: Nadia Refaei
2-7: Shireen Taweel, ‘Between Science and the Sublime’, Installation view, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, 2025. Photo: Phillip Maisel.

Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco

‘OBJECTIVE’ is on at Town Hall Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 24 January 2026.Everyday objects become portals into somet...
30/11/2025

‘OBJECTIVE’ is on at Town Hall Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 24 January 2026.

Everyday objects become portals into something stranger and more imaginative as the artists expand still life beyond its familiar confines. Paintings tilt toward abstraction, installations blur the natural with the artificial, and small domestic gestures gather surprising emotional weight. Objects shift from the ordinary to the uncanny, from quiet symbols to charged presences that hold humour, intimacy and play.

Through bold experimentation, the exhibition asks how the things that surround us might speak when freed from convention, inviting a refreshed way of seeing rooted in curiosity rather than categorisation.

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Clemens Krauss’ ‘Touched’ is on at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 20 December 2025.These works shi...
29/11/2025

Clemens Krauss’ ‘Touched’ is on at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 20 December 2025.

These works shift between the humanoid, the geometric and the organic, inviting viewers into a zone where interpretation unfolds as freely as the paint itself. Krauss draws on his background in psychoanalysis to open space for unconscious material to rise, encouraging a kind of looking that feels both intimate and unsteady. Paint becomes a living surface that thickens, collapses, and crests in rhythmic formations, creating a sculptural skin that seems to breathe. Figures hover between tenderness and volatility, between seduction and unease, dissolving any fixed boundary between the physical and the psychological.

Across rotating canvases and mutable forms, Krauss invites us to consider the body not as a stable object but as a shifting field of potentiality shaped by touch, memory and the forces that bind us to one another.

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1. Clemens Krauss, ‘Constellation #7354’ (detail), 2025, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
2. Installation view of Clemens Krauss, 'Touched' at Dominik Mersch Gallery, 2025
3. Clemens Krauss, ‘Blossom I’ from the series Blossoms (detail), 2025, oil on jute, 70 x 50 cm
4. Installation view of Clemens Krauss, 'Touched' at Dominik Mersch Gallery, 2025
5. Clemens Krauss, ‘Re-Flesh I’(detail), 2025, oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm

Courtesy of Dominik Mersch Gallery

Adam Lee’s ‘I am the Hermit, You Are the Cave / You Are the Wind, I am the Song’ is on at STATION, Gadigal Country/Sydne...
28/11/2025

Adam Lee’s ‘I am the Hermit, You Are the Cave / You Are the Wind, I am the Song’ is on at STATION, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 20 December 2025.

Across this new body of work, quiet worlds open up through shadow, translucency and the delicate accumulation of fragments. Early drawings made on semi transparent papers form the exhibition’s foundation, each one a trace of a fleeting moment captured through touch, pressure and instinct. These impressions reappear within the paintings as spectral echoes, creating a layered sense of presence where the past bleeds gently into the imagined.

Figures and landscapes emerge as if half remembered, shaped by folklore, family memory and the artist’s enduring interest in spiritual inquiry. Lee’s practice weaves these elements into environments thick with mood, where light behaves like a character and atmosphere becomes a form of storytelling. The work reflects a longing for connection, not only to place but to the unseen forces that shape human experience. Through these poetic scenes, the exhibition contemplates the ways we navigate solitude, seek guidance and build meaning from the fragments we carry.

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VAULT Magazine

Produced quarterly, VAULT identifies the pre-eminent artists, designers, collectors and enthusiasts in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

With an enduring interest in fashion, architecture, food, literature and the finest forms of visual expression, VAULT offers a fresh and insightful perspective into the world and mind of the creative.

Each issue champions a new sense of appreciation for contemporary creativity and speaks fluently to a community of readers passionate about the arts and corresponding culture.