Misfit features the work of 11 contemporary queer artists from Australia and abroad who use some form of “expanded collage” in their practice.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt brings Thailand’s Wat Pho temple to Australia through her multi-sensory installation Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind at the Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts.
Yhonnie Scarce has been awarded the second Yalingwa Fellowship, an initiative designed to foster career development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists living and working in Victoria.
“Without science we would not understand the body, without the body fashion would not become alive and without art, how can we express the bodies we have?”
Creating a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia, John Prince Siddon’s works dance on the edges.
For Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine the still-nascent artistic medium of virtual reality (VR) is the perfect fit for exploring themes of dislocation, disorientation, alienation and culture shock.
Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang are redefining VR in contemporary art.
In the group exhibition Hi Vis, fashion is used to arrest attention and focus it onto complex political ideas.
It is the deftly-crafted dialogue between the works of 15 artists in the exhibition that reveal the connections between the two wildly different, but similarly slippery, concepts of rococo and colonialism.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of insiders share their thoughts on what exhibitions they're planning to see and why.
Creating a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia, John Prince Siddon’s works dance on the edges.
Sounds of Pacing places early-career artists in lively conversation with each other.
Kate Baker is known for works which combine glass and photographic processes to poetic effect.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
As an abstract painter with an enduring interest in modernism, John Nixon has always enjoyed exploring and absorbing material from allied fields.
Corbett’s art making began 20 years ago on the grounds of his former car-wrecking business.
After years of imbalance, the time has finally come for the arts sector to achieve greater gender equality. But will it be more than a hashtag?
Debra Porch’s posthumous exhibition reminded me of a piece of graffiti I saw on the back of a toilet stall door a few years ago.
When Adelaide-based artist Sue Kneebone visited Mauritius it was not for the blue sky and beaches, it was for family.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
“In some ways I don’t think of my life and art as separate things, I think it’s one in the same thing,” says artist Louise Weaver when speaking of her creative pursuits.
For David Hurlston curating is both a conceptual and physical process: he’s concerned with how viewers move through gallery spaces and how they read artworks. “It’s just about making a really tangible and interesting and educative experience, and I think that happens in the real world, in the real space,” he says.
We are watching more videos on our small screens than ever before, but how much of it is art? Steve Dow spoke to artist Tina Havelock Stevens about being a self-confessed screen addict, and to Lauren Carroll Harris about her initiative Prototype, a curated platform for specially commissioned video art pieces.
Melbourne-based artist and author Tai Snaith recently travelled to London as a finalist in the World Illustration Awards. In her postcard from London she delves into the tricky question: What’s the difference between art and illustration?
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.
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