Mixed Media
![Cressida Campbell. Image is a still life painting of vases on a table with spindly flowers in them, a bowl and an apple. On the wall behind are parts of three Japanese prints.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cressida-e1716852115705.jpeg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Cutting Through Time – Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print, Geelong Gallery
An examination of the influence of Japanese woodblock prints on two prominent Australian artists.
![Canberra Museum and Gallery. A group of metal cylinders in shades of bronze and blue patina are grouped against a white brick wall. The one on the far left is bubbly at the top as if it has been underwater or in an acid bath.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/elliotbastianon-cassieabraham-.jpg?w=310)
The slippery nexus between sculpture and design and the agency of materials
Canberra Museum and Gallery has a new exhibition: Materiality… but not as we know it.
!['JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live', installation view at Koorie Heritage Trust. Left to right: 'The Heart', 2016; 'Oxymoron', 2015; 'William Buckley - Maquette', 2016 (mixed media sculpture); 'Still Here', 2015; 'The Empire', 2015 (top); 'Ticket to Projection', 2015 (middle), 'Skip to my Lou', 2015 (bottom). Photo: ArtsHub. Digital illustrations of Melbourne landmarks with red, black and yellow background hang on the walls. In front of them is a small sculpture of a human figure on a bright yellow plinth.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/20240509_102411-e1715233709143.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live, Koorie Heritage Trust
When kinship is involved – it shows.
![Image is a dark gallery with a shiny wooden floor and a white box seat. On the walls are two 3D pieces, one a cupboard like work and the other comprising abstract faces.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Odalala-1_Tiffany-Garvie1.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Odalala, nireekshane and Uyirvu, Arts House
Australian and international artists examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality.
![Image is an abstract half circle above another with a piece removed, painted thickly in images that resemble Earth and sea from above.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Camilla-Grace-2-e1713835887971.jpeg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Opening Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery Space
New independent art gallery in Windsor, Melbourne, opens with an eclectic collection of visual art.
![Hands of First Nations person holding charcoal against background of tree. Yarrabah](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Charcoal-Yarrabah-Arts-Cultural-Precinct.jpg?w=310)
Charcoal exhibition united through art-making
Charcoal symbolises renewal, and a new exhibition explores the medium for Reconciliation Week.
![Sea, Salt and Silk. Image is an Arctic shoreline with a silhouette of a woman carrying a Perspex sheet.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/salt.jpg?w=310)
Multimedia review: Sea, Salt and Silk, Abbotsford Convent
An immersive event combining live sound, video and participatory installations with works using paper and salt.
![brightly coloured sculptures suspended from ceiling in dark room. Artist Caroline Rothwell](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Rothwell0Ngununggula.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat, Ngununggula
Joan Ross and Caroline Rothwell make for a perfect pairing, in an edgy exhibition that rattles colonial history and legacies.
![a artwork on paper that shows 13 multicolored textile shapes in the form of women's lips with stitching over them and drizzles of red earth over the whole composition.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lips-to-Kiss-and-Dont-Tell_RESIZED.jpg?w=310)
Artist helping Venice Biennale move beyond its history
This year’s Venice Biennale calls for greater diversity and change, and one of its exhibiting artists is part of that…
![Image is a sarcophagus in a display of Egyptian artefacts.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Chak-Chak-mummy-detail.jpg?w=310)
Museum takes a stand on displaying body parts
The University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum has chosen to remove mummified body parts from display.