Grace Wood: Holding snails, snakes, and a grandmother’s legacy

Grace Wood’s new exhibition for Heide Museum of Modern Art intertwines personal, familial, and artistic archives. Consisting of textile and digital collage, Wood traces lines of inheritance and influence to position the garden as a site of both personal and artistic cultivation.

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By Amelia Wallin | Published 06 Aug 2025

To the limit with Arcangelo Sassolino

In the cavernous spaces of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, the large-scale kinetic sculptures of Arcangelo Sassolino are teetering on the brink.

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By Briony Downes | Published 06 Aug 2025

Ghosts in the Machine

In a world in which the new wave of AI is reframing our relationship with creative labour, how do artists negotiate an impending crisis of relevance and understand the true value of their work? Stephanie Wood reports.

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By Stephanie Wood | Published 31 Jul 2025

Sue Kneebone and the tides that bind

Over the past two decades, Sue Kneebone’s practice has threaded together found materials and archival information to consider the impact of settler colonialism on the landscape of South Australia. Kneebone’s exhibition at Adelaide Central Gallery is a nod to her great-great-grandfather and the “trans-oceanic” legacies braided into his story.

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By Walter Marsh | Published 30 Jul 2025

Evie Adasal: Nature through colour and shape

Evie Adasal’s show Light and Space unveils a series of works that look at the intersection of design, light and space at The Garden Gallery in Sydney.

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By Art Guide Australia | Published 24 Jul 2025

Inside July/August 2025

A detail of Yindjibarndi artist and elder Wendy Hubert’s nine-metre painting graces the cover of Art Guide’s July/August issue, which explores some ways artists encourage deeper looking and listening. Inside, a short history of Australian art traverses space and time, while a new essay series examines relationships between art and the wider world.

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Cartographies of the heart

Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.

By Tahmina Maskinyar | Published 03 Jul 2025

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Setting the Agenda

Artists communicate across space and time in the expansive inaugural exhibition, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art at the newly renovated Potter Museum of Art.

By Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | Published 16 Jul 2025

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Resisting rules with Janet Dawson

At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration. A retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the evolution of her practice.

By Steve Dow | Published 23 Jul 2025

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Chinese Restaurant Playground: Steffie Yee shares off-menu stories

Steffie Yee spent many years gathering stories and images of her family’s history in the town of Branxton, NSW where her parents successfully ran a Chinese restaurant. Yee’s solo exhibition Chinese Restaurant Playground, which celebrates playfulness and joy, recently opened at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

By Jasmeet Kaur Sahi | Published 27 Jun 2025

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Janenne Eaton reflects the impact of the digital world on the natural

Janenne Eaton’s first major career survey, Lines of Sight—Frame and Horizon opens at Geelong Gallery. With a lifetime of environmental work and appreciation, the work reflects on the omnipotence of technology, capturing the essential commentary of humanity’s effect on the natural world.

By Steve Dow | Published 23 May 2025

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Piercing the veil

A new exhibition at Buxton Contemporary finds a rich complexity in the shadowy terrain between life and death.

By Claire G. Coleman | Published 18 Jul 2025

Book Reviews

Shelf Portraits: Critical Currents

In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.

By Jane O'Sullivan | Published 25 Jun 2025

Interview

20 Questions with Tara Marynowsky

Multidisciplinary artist Tara Marynowsky reveals where she finds inspiration, the best time of day for creating and what we can expect to see in her current solo show Cave at Edwina Corlette Gallery.

By Sally Gearon | Published 09 Jul 2025

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Photos of a life

An exhibition 50 years in the making, Auto-Photo: A life in Portraits currently on display at RMIT Gallery, celebrates the life of Alan Adler, one of the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technicians in the world.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 16 Jul 2025

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Sophie Penkethman-Young’s Scroll Play

Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.

By Michelle Wang | Published 02 Jul 2025

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in a part of your mind, i am you

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Perth

Lines in the Sand: Women from the West

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery & Berndt Museum

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Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

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Villain Edit

Georgia Banks

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Shepparton

More Than This

Belinda Fox

Shepparton Art Museum

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Remy Faint explores material culture in his garage-studio

Step inside Remy Faint’s inner-city Sydney garage, where he meticulously constructs every element of his artworks—from wooden frames and sculpted fabric to striking, multilayered paintings in silk. Faint is now showing at the Rockhampton Museum of Art.

By Michelle Wang | Published 04 Jun 2025

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Monica Rani Rudhar on (be)longing

Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.

By Jo Higgins | Published 02 Jul 2025

Studio

Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio

Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human.

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Grace Wood: Holding snails, snakes, and a grandmother’s legacy

By Amelia Wallin | Published 06 Aug 2025

To the limit with Arcangelo Sassolino

By Briony Downes | Published 06 Aug 2025

Ghosts in the Machine

By Stephanie Wood | Published 31 Jul 2025

Sue Kneebone and the tides that bind

By Walter Marsh | Published 30 Jul 2025

Evie Adasal: Nature through colour and shape

By Art Guide Australia | Published 24 Jul 2025

Inside July/August 2025

Find out what's on around Australia

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Cartographies of the heart

By Tahmina Maskinyar | Published 03 Jul 2025

Setting the Agenda

By Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | Published 16 Jul 2025

Resisting rules with Janet Dawson

By Steve Dow | Published 23 Jul 2025

Highlights

Chinese Restaurant Playground: Steffie Yee shares off-menu stories

By Jasmeet Kaur Sahi | Published 27 Jun 2025

Janenne Eaton reflects the impact of the digital world on the natural

By Steve Dow | Published 23 May 2025

Piercing the veil

By Claire G. Coleman | Published 18 Jul 2025

Shelf Portraits: Critical Currents

By Jane O'Sullivan | Published 25 Jun 2025

20 Questions with Tara Marynowsky

By Sally Gearon | Published 09 Jul 2025

Photos of a life

By Art Guide Australia | Published 16 Jul 2025

Sophie Penkethman-Young’s Scroll Play

By Michelle Wang | Published 02 Jul 2025

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Current Issue

Our July/August 2025 issue is out now

Top 5 exhibitions to see this week

in a part of your mind, i am you

Tom Polo

Ngununggula

Lines in the Sand: Women from the West

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery & Berndt Museum

Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

Villain Edit

Georgia Banks

Platform Arts

More Than This

Belinda Fox

Shepparton Art Museum

Studios

Remy Faint explores material culture in his garage-studio

By Michelle Wang | Published 04 Jun 2025

Monica Rani Rudhar on (be)longing

By Jo Higgins | Published 02 Jul 2025

Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio

By Michelle Wang | Published 26 Sep 2024

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