There is a concern for decolonisation, the environment and putting forward Indigenous perspectives, and championing a closer and more caring relationship with nature.
Public art, loved and hated in equal measure. Canberra-based journalist Sally Pryor examines public sculpture in the nation’s capital. What is its function? One person’s icon may be another’s eyesore. Aesthetics vary, but does public art actually serve another, more important, purpose?
Materials of all shapes and sizes provide a focal point for Gunditjmara and Torres Strait Islander artist, Lisa Waup.
The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by MGA for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Other Suns is an ode to an idea of the future that has fallen into the past, a fond rear-ward glance at the aesthetics and cultural detritus of an age that was obsessed with, and optimistic about, outer space and frontiers.
Elaine Campaner’s photographs of multilayered dioramas reward intense viewing.
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
Invisible Threads places emphasis on Kotai’s more recent fabric collages, a technique she happened on by chance in the early 2000s.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of insiders share their thoughts on what exhibitions they're planning to see and why.
The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by MGA for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.
A jeweller friend remarked to me that if you come across work in a jewellery show and can’t immediately recognise who made it, it is probably by Lisa Walker.
The winner of the 2019 Telstra Art Award is Djambawa Marawili AM with his work Journey to America.
For the new instalment of their Living Treasures series, the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects.
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
“Look at the screen, I’m on my way to make heaven,” gargles the voice of a bodiless cubist head talking on a loop as you enter Fox Jensen Gallery.
Every year the SALA festival offers an in-depth look at the practice of a living South Australian artist through a monograph on their work. This year sculptor Louise Haselton finds herself in the spotlight in both the book and a solo show at the Samstag Museum.
“I was aware that the scale of my work is relative to me. I had created a habituated practice relative to my body size and it was something I sought to extend. I wanted to create larger, more immersive scenes in painting.”
Blak Douglas has won the 2019 Kilgour Prize with his large graphic portrait of actress and singer Ursula Yovich.
“Each curator is unique like every artist is unique, I believe,” says Nici Cumpston, a leader in the Australian arts who holds the dual positions of Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Artistic Director of the annual TARNANTHI festival.
“I am most interested in working collaboratively and closely with artists to develop their ideas and to give them a platform to experiment and create new works or new experiences through their work.” – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Curator Anna Davis.
Colour is simultaneously the most apparent and most complex part of Gemma Smith’s practice. The artist, who has a penchant for abstraction, creates paintings that capture dialogues and interactions between colours.
Tiarney Miekus, host and producer of Art Guide Australia’s podcast, suggests a range of podcasts on art, perfect for those who want to listen as well as look.
2019 is the international year of Indigenous languages. In recognition, Art Guide asked Anna Kenny to recall the journey she took to translate a more than 100-year-old dictionary written in German and three Aboriginal languages. Now in English, this multilingual dictionary is a powerful tool for preserving and propagating the use of several Indigenous languages in Central Australia.
Long before astronaut Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” artists have been fascinated by the Moon. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, Steve Dow examines the perpetual creative pull of our nearest celestial neighbour.
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