Behind the Art

Locust Jones is a contemporary, Australian artist. For over 20 years, Locust's practice has woven layers of stories and images that replicate the frenetic pace at which society consumes everyday news and current...

Michelle Hamer & Talitha Kennedy are two contemporary Australian artists. Hamer and Kennedy are part of a group exhibition titled Intimacy, on display at RMOA from 28 March - 5 July 2026.

In 2025 Sally Smart transformed RMOA’s Long Gallery, responding to the monumental yet intimate scale of this space through exploration of the legacies of theatre and visual art.

Shari O'Dwyer is an exhibiting Artist in the Cane exhibition. O'Dwyer's work is: It hangs over my head, it lurks in the shadows 2023, hand knotted sisal twine, private collection. Cane is exhibiting at RMOA from 28...

Right of Reply: a response to 'Cane' exhibition at RMOA 28 February 2026 - 21 June 2026. Joella Warkill, Imelda Miller and Jacob McGuire in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann.

The work of Sandra Selig frequently meditates upon space, withmany of her works charting a course between the installation itself, and thematerials in use, which are often found. Here, Selig’s pieces use space totease...

My work gives form to personal observations and internalreflections. While walking the streets or tending my garden, I often discoverfragments of broken objects—tools run over, ceramics buried—each once part of...

Eugene Carchesio has made a career of intimacy, explored throughdifferent media, usually through series. These include delicate papersculptures, small studies of leaves or birds, watercolours exploring colour...

Details of the Dispossessed The obsession with lifelike figures can be traced back toantiquity: the ancient Greeks painted their statues, to solid give solidpresence to what were idealized forms. With occasional...

Intimacy is a sensation that I imbue in all my artworks. It startswith the way I create my artworks then it’s the close attention and empathy Iwant people to feel when they see my works. I lovingly craft my sculptures...

Adams’ work invites an awareness of the way in which perceptionsof how ‘signs’ operate. You might call his artworks ‘meaning composites’.Understanding that emotion and thoughts are complex and abstracted things, andnot...

This body of work explores intimacy as something accumulated infragments, in repetitions, in layered marks and gestures. Working primarilywith coloured pencil, gouache, and fresco-like plaster surfaces, I’m drawn...

I am primarily a cartoonist—an abstract expressionist cartoonist.I was educated during the New York School's dominance of the art world, and I incorporated many oftheir styles into my drawings, along with those of...

This suite of collage works is comprised of diagrammatic imageryexcised from aged and obsolete textbooks, reference works, and instructionmanuals. Disinterred from their utilitarian points of origin, these images...

When I search to find words go accompany this artwork, titled Mending , I would say that it is an ongoing pursuit, one that is hardly ever completed.