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Kawita Vatanajyankur

Thai-Australian artist Kawita Vatanajyankur has long been interested in female labour and its relationship to textiles. Most recently she has explored this in video works in which she uses her own body to transform into various tools, such as a weaving shuttle or a spinning wheel.

Preview

By Andrew Stephens
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2018

Jeff Khan says the Liveworks program evolved organically, but one idea he kept returning to was about “bodies at the edge.”

Preview

By Jane O'Sullivan
Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage

Peter Raissis, curator of European prints and drawings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales where 65 of their paintings will be on view in Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage, insists that the show is not going to feel like walking through a textbook.

Preview

By Tracey Clement
Beyond Bling!

Beyond Bling! is the third in the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Culture Juice series of popular culture exhibitions.

Preview

By Sheridan Coleman
Jasmine Targett: Super Ecology

Throughout her career Jasmine Targett has worked with esteemed researchers and organisations, including NASA, and used their research and technology in her work.

Preview

By Nadiah Abdulrahim
William Kentridge: master of both quality and quantity

Can you have too much of a good thing? William Kentridge seems determined to find out in his survey show, William Kentridge: that which we do not remember, at Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Preview, Review

By Tracey Clement

Hoda Afshar wins William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2018

Congratulations to Hoda Afshar who has won the $30,000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.

News

By Art Guide Australia

Zoe Young wins Portia Geach Memorial Award 2018

Congratulations to Zoe Young who has won the $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award for 2018.

News

By Art Guide Australia

A Stitch in Time

Raquel Ormella has wielded a needle to chart our cultural landscape in all of its intensities.

Feature

By Anna Dunnill

Some Questions for Artists

When you come back with a new tube of Titanium White, are you thinking ‘Oh boy, let’s go!’ or ‘Oh Jesus, will I ever be free?’

Opinion

By Andrew Frost

Feature

The Curator’s Voice

The question was posed to four Melbourne curators, ‘what are you currently excited about in the Melbourne art scene?’

By Zara Sigglekow

Preview, Review

Human non Human

In the group show Human non Human, the question of what it is to be human is tackled by five artists who actively engage with technology and/or the tropes of science.

By Tracey Clement

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun

In Hito Steyerl’s immersive video installation Factory of the Sun, the gallery’s dark walls, floor and ceiling are illuminated by a grid, lines glowing a cold blue.

Preview, Review

By Anna Dunnill

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Ann Debono

“To say the name of something is to make a fold in the world that doesn’t sever. The name isn’t severed from its object and the image isn’t severed from its object. But it’s distinguished by an edge that doesn’t sever.” – Ann Debono

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

Margaret Lawrence Gallery

between and among objects

Consuelo Cavaniglia

Top 5 Exhibitions

Praxis Artspace

Genealogical Ghostscapes

Sera Waters

ARC ONE Gallery

Surface Zero

Peter Daverington

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Anne Ferran: Intimate Journals, Uncover stories within the pages of the Bundanon Library

AirSpace Projects

Familiars

Kath Fries and Katy B Plummer

Recent Articles

Connection and resistance

The evolving collective this mob, founded by Kate ten Buuren, creates a nurturing and deadly space for Blak artists.

Feature

By Maddee Clark

Five on Five: Kate Beynon on Remedios Varo’s The Creation of the Birds

In this first series of Five on Five we’re asking five painters to speak about a painting that has influenced, inspired or resonated with them. In this episode Kate Beynon reflects on The Creation of the Birds (1958) by Spanish artist Remedios Varo.

Feature

By Tiarney Miekus

Ronnie van Hout: No one is watching you

New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Ronnie van Hout has made a name for himself with works that are perplexing, outlandish and disruptive.

Feature

By Varia Karipoff

Art+

Facing the law

Lawyer and art historian Adam Bushby discusses the challenges an artist faces when painting judges and lawyers; a niche in the portraiture genre subject to multiple constraints.

By Adam Bushby

Ilona Nelson, This Wild Song

This Wild Song is a long-term project by artist and curator Ilona Nelson. Galvanised by recent statistics around gender inequality in the arts (for example the 2015 Countess Report), Nelson has made it her mission to champion and celebrate Australian female artists through photographic portraiture.

By Anna Dunnill

Can design decolonise cities?

Ahead of NAIDOC week, Indigenous writer and urban planner Timmah Ball reflects on the rise of First Nations inflected design elements in our cities. She questions whether or not they are actually having the desired decolonial effect and, after a trip to New Zealand, compares practices in Naarm (Melbourne) and Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).

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Kawita Vatanajyankur

Preview

By Andrew Stephens

Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2018

Preview

By Jane O'Sullivan

Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage

Preview

By Tracey Clement

Beyond Bling!

Preview

By Sheridan Coleman

Jasmine Targett: Super Ecology

Preview

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

William Kentridge: master of both quality and quantity

Preview, Review

By Tracey Clement

Hoda Afshar wins William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2018

News

By Art Guide Australia

Zoe Young wins Portia Geach Memorial Award 2018

News

By Art Guide Australia

A Stitch in Time

Feature

By Anna Dunnill

Some Questions for Artists

Opinion

By Andrew Frost

Feature

The Curator’s Voice

By Zara Sigglekow

Preview, Review

Human non Human

By Tracey Clement

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun

Preview, Review

By Anna Dunnill

Studio

Ann Debono

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

Margaret Lawrence Gallery

between and among objects

Consuelo Cavaniglia

Top 5 Exhibitions

Praxis Artspace

Genealogical Ghostscapes

Sera Waters

ARC ONE Gallery

Surface Zero

Peter Daverington

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Anne Ferran: Intimate Journals, Uncover stories within the pages of the Bundanon Library

AirSpace Projects

Familiars

Kath Fries and Katy B Plummer

Recent Articles

Connection and resistance

Feature

By Maddee Clark

Five on Five: Kate Beynon on Remedios Varo’s The Creation of the Birds

Feature

By Tiarney Miekus

Ronnie van Hout: No one is watching you

Feature

By Varia Karipoff

Art+

Facing the law

By Adam Bushby

Ilona Nelson, This Wild Song

By Anna Dunnill

Can design decolonise cities?

By Timmah Ball

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