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Neha Kale’s 'A Foreign Return': a life told through art

Neha Kale’s 'A Foreign Return': a life told through art

In A Foreign Return, Neha Kale uses paintings, photographs and installations to explore migration, memory and belonging. Joanna Mendelssohn reviews a...

25.09.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Joanna Mendelssohn

From Mumbai to Perth and beyond, Neha Kale considers, art, colonialism and ideas of home

From Mumbai to Perth and beyond, Neha Kale considers, art, colonialism and ideas of home

Neha Kale’s A Foreign Return: on art and habitation is an unusual blend of memoir and art criticism, spanning continents and time.

21.09.2026 30

The Conversation

Joanna Mendelssohn

The 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial is a collage of an exhibition, and a work of wonder

After the Rain, curated by Tony Albert, celebrates the resurgence of Australian Indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the loss of the referendum

10.12.2025 40

The Conversation

Joanna Mendelssohn

The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance

In A Woman’s Eye, Her Art, Drusilla Modjeska unpacks how the once-forgotten women artists of the early 20th century continue to inspire today.

16.10.2025 40

The Conversation

Joanna Mendelssohn

A new exhibition is a thoughtful examination of the lasting relationship between Asia and Australia

The Neighbour at the Gate at Sydney’s National Art School Gallery presents a thoughtful examination of the consequences when good neighbours become...

11.07.2025 30

The Conversation

Joanna Mendelssohn