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Insomnia fueled some of the greatest art women have ever produced, but the darkness can also come with a price

From Bridget Riley’s grids to Louise Bourgeois’s phallic bulges, this show is a glorious celebration of female abstract artists whose often-denigrated work now feels unstoppable

Reflecting on London's art scene from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s ignites a rush of excitement for me, marked by the opening of Tate Modern, the captivating Louise Bourgeois installation at the Turbine Hall, the birth of Frieze Art Fair, the Saatchi Gallery in County Hall, and the emergence…

As you make your way towards the Art Gallery of New South Wales, you will come across the giant sinewy bronze legs of the artist’s monumental sculpture Maman (“mum” in French) looming near the entrance.

This being Mapplethorpe, phallic imagery is in abundance – but do we really need a room of dull celebrity portraits?

A new exhibition in Canberra charts how women artists of the 20th century have been consumed with the body – and changed the way it has been depicted

Spanning almost 130 works – including a number of showstoppers – the Art Gallery of NSW pays homage to the strange fruits of the late artist’s psyche

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

It’s 6am in the morning, I’m in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been here for about 30 hours now and to be honest I’ve spent most of the time asleep, dreaming. Strange dreams mainly to do with death and journeys and art and fear. In fact, all to do with fear.

A new art installation has used the theme of day and night to traverse the spectrum of human emotion and the ideas of the unconscious.

Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition