Lilli Waters Orpheus
Metro Gallery 2 to 26 February 2022
Melbourne
Orpheus features a series of ten large-scale photographs and moving image artworks by artist Lilli Waters, which were elaborately constructed underwater using shells, fish, and flowers, and the female form. The striking subjects emerge from a dark waterscape to create an otherworldly ethereal visual.
Works are reminiscent of the Dutch masterpieces of the seventeenth century and a reminder of the transitory nature of everything. Floating alongside the blossoms are jewel-like creatures, and shells, dramatically shrouded by golden nets, and sheets of suffocating cellophane.
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia Until 18 April 2022
Perth
Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Ever Present features more than 100 historical and contemporary works by over eighty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across Australia. From Albert Namatjira’s Ormiston Gorge, 1939, and Timothy Cook’s Kulama, 2010, to Julie Dowling’s Self-portrait: in our country, 2002, and Richard Bell’s Omega (Bell’s Theorem), 2013, the exhibition explores themes of identity, connection, Australia’s contested historical narratives, and the contemporary experience of First Nations artists practising today.
Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Until 20 February 2022
Hobart
From 1946–47,
