As Gina Rinehart calls for Vincent Namatjira’s portrait of her to be removed from the National Gallery of Australia, the rules of representation have come into question.
Welcome to the first iteration of our monthly book review series, where we share the latest curation of titles straight from the Art Guide Bookstore. With each instalment, we’ll celebrate what’s on offer in the world of Australian art book publishing.“Creativity is never an individual competitive practice.” Jane O’Sullivan reviews CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008, a recent book exposing the data on gender inequity in the arts.
Illustrator Oslo Davis recently spent time with Raymond Arnold and Helena Demczuk at their Queenstown “creative lab” PressWEST, where the artist couple support exhibitions and workshops that not only centre printmaking, but care for land ravaged by mining.
The Biennale of Sydney has announced Hoor Al Qasimi, an esteemed curator and Emirati royalty, as the artistic director of the 2026 Biennale of Sydney.
Geelong Gallery is pairing renowned Australian artists Margaret Preston (1875—1963) with the contemporary Cressida Campbell, in exploration of their mutual affinity for the Japanese ukiyo-e print.
Colossal in size and colour, Dale Frank’s paintings are staples of modern abstraction. With a current retrospective at the National Art School, curator Olivia Sophia takes us through Dale’s practice, traversing his weird and wonderful materials.
From the myth of gold-hunting termites to capturing minute rock particles, Nicholas Mangan’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art weaves narrative, materiality, and time.
Working between Indonesia and Australia, Jumaadi’s art draws on Javanese folk culture to excavate themes of colonialism, suffering, death and birth. His work is featured in an exhibition now showing at Bundanon Art Museum.
In her latest collection of works, now showing at Tactile Arts, Hunnah James incorporates shedded discards from local paperbarks trees into her watercolour paintings of native flora and fauna.
A new show at Craft Victoria asks six creatives—artists, makers, designers—to respond to aluminium as a material. All the aluminium used is recycled, highlighting the space’s new Conscious Craft initiative.
The beachside charm of the Gold Coast is getting the Renaissance treatment with the region’s major gallery, Home of the Arts (HOTA), exhibiting not “old master” paintings per se, but a series of multifaceted, immersive projections of works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli and Caravaggio, among many others.
Trevor Yeung’s art draws on moments of quiet, dawning intimacy between people—interactions which are immensely felt yet so difficult to express. The Hong-Kong based artist is in this year’s Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and Artspace.
With a practice stretching over 50 years, celebrated artist Jill Orr is known for working with her body and centering responsibility towards our environment and place. In her latest exhibition at Linden New Art, Orr revisits an earlier series from 2012—and what it can tell us today.
In their first joint exhibition together, the couple Dana Harris and Peter Atkins share their separate three-year-long projects made during the Melbourne lockdowns, delivering a shared interest in geometry and colour in SUPERsystems at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
The brand new 10km Mosman Art Trail features landmarks that have inspired generations of artists, including Arthur Streeton, Margaret Preston, Susan Rothwell and Jasper Knight. With accompanying reproductions of artworks at various sites on the walk, it’s a chance to reflect how artists interpret the landscape.
