Contemporary Australia: Women

Contemporary Australia: Women includes more than 70 works in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, textiles, video, and performance. The exhibition will explore key themes such as ‘performing’ femininity; the place of personal and intimate spheres such as sexuality, the body, motherhood and ageing; the return to everyday materials; and the ways some artists are ‘redressing the canon’ of painting.

The exhibition acknowledges the strong history of work by women artists in Australia and foregrounds their critical, provocative, unexpected and illuminating contributions, which have shaped, and continue to shape, the landscape of contemporary art in Australia.