Hoda Afshar is a photo media artist known for examining people denied a voice, or those risking everything for freedom, or truth. At the same time, Hoda is is also concerned with the politics of traditional documentary photography, and centres the humanity of her subjects. From her portraits of refugees detained on Manus Island, to immortalising whistleblowers as classical Greek statues and a series inspired by Iran's feminist uprising. Hoda's first major solo exhibition at an Australian institution A Curve is a Broken Line features her photography and film from the past decade. She speaks to Daniel at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
My Thing is … my mother. Kate Dorrough is a Sydney-based artist who moves between painting on canvas and hand-built ceramic forms. Her latest exhibition is a conversation across time with her mother, artist Heather Dorrough, who died in 2018
Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Shivanjani Lal are two artists whose great-grandparents were taken from India by the British as indentured labourers - Sancintya’s to South Africa, and Shivanjani’s to Fiji. Each investigates this legacy through different art practices but both are dealing with histories that have been erased from the colonial-era archives. Sancintya's exhibition ām / ammā / mā maram is on at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).