Stanton Cornish-Ward and Trent Crawford, Synchresis (Part I), 2026, installation view, Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, photograph: Jessica Maurer.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia annual showcase of leading Australian artists under 35, eight artists turn loss into the labour of making.
Alexandra Peters, The Infinite Image (detail), Defenestration (Autoantibodies), acrylic and water-based ink with screen-print medium and paste on leatherette and Leg Over Leg V, commercial carpet, 2025, installation view, Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025.
Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh
The Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition of artists under 35 asks what it means for artists to create in a post-industrial age of reproduction.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, installation view, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024.
Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, © the artist, photograph: Zan Wimberley
The work of Hiroshi Sugimoto is now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art. His photographs reveal his reverence for technique.
Julie Rrap, Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (detail), 1982, installation view. Julie Rrap: Past Continuous, Museum
of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024, black and white archival prints, colour cibachrome prints,
Museum of Contemporary Art,
purchased 1994. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music, Paradiso by Thomas Adès, 35mm colour anamorphic film, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, © the artist.
Tactia Dean works across film, photography, drawing, printmaking, immersive installations, and she is now on display at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Al río/To the River (detail) © Zoe Leonard.
For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting.
Vivienne Binns.
Somebody’s every day, somewhere, sometime, 2009. Acrylic paint on canvas. 152 x 183cm
MCA/Tim Herbert
Vivienne Binns burst on to the art scene in 1967 – and she has been making art her own way ever since.
An installation view of Lindy Lee’s Birth and Death.
Anna Kucera
Lindy Lee sees beauty in a moon drop, a speck of dust caught in a beam of light, and fragments of molten bronze. A new exhibition arcs over the entire trajectory of Lee’s career.
Sam Cranstoun, Utopia, The National, Carriageworks.
Zan Wimberley
The ambitiously named exhibition, The National: New Australian Art, lives up to its title as a visual examination of Australia in an age of uncertainty.