Opinion
Art in the Quiet City
As the closure of cities pushes art online, have we really learnt anything new?
Eugenia Lim’s major exhibition The Ambassador is currently touring Australia, and brings together works featuring her invented persona, also called the ambassador, who she inhabits across multiple videos, performances and sites.
Through mythology and folklore, Julia Robinson’s sculptures reflect and question our history and present.
From alleviating anxiety to getting fit at home, our current moment has been a time of seeking wisdom. The advice from artists at Cement Fondu? Don’t let yourself go.
There has never been a better time to avoid art. However, as Oslo Davis discovered, the internet makes it ridiculously easy to stay connected to the art world, whether you like it or not.
Tom Polo is interested in the space between things—actions, gestures and words—and the body’s movement through the environment.
As the closure of cities pushes art online, have we really learnt anything new?
A former Melbourne technical college becomes central to growing a creative ecology.
For Time traveller for hole, Sasha Grbich and Kelly Reynolds have harnessed the restrictions and limitations resulting from Covid-19 to reassess, reinvent, and re-imagine their practice.
University of Technology Sydney curator Tania Creighton talks about the early years of Watters Gallery and emphasises the effect friendship had on both the business and Frank Watters’s collection.
In his third session On the Couch, Andrew Frost admires the survival strategies of artists in the face of both actual catastrophes and crippling ennui.
In Kitchen Creations, Art Guide talks to artists about cooking. For the second part of this series, Sheridan Hart spoke to Bo Wong, Mike Bianco and Mark Valenzuela about channelling their energies into food and drinks, and they shared some of their favourite recipes.
Although only active for four years, the Brio are currently showing at Artspace and Cockatoo Island for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN.
The conceptual backbone of Bundit Puangthong’s art is the tension between holding onto the past and letting go.
Sophia Cai discusses the hidden costs of doing what you love.
As toilet paper (or the lack of it) made national headlines, artist Adrienne Doig turned a by-product of this basic commodity – the left over cardboard rolls – into a feel-good doll-making project anyone can do at home.
Australian artists Bessie Davidson (1879–1965) and Sally Smart are connected not only by relation: they are also both strong feminist presences in male-dominated, avant-garde traditions.
Colin Langridge responds to the global environmental crisis with a series of large-scale wooden sculptures at Colville Gallery.
Louise Gresswell gives us an insight into the very process of painting itself.
In this second edition of Faraway, so close—a podcast dedicated to considering the anxieties and opportunities emerging in the arts in our new COVID-19 world—we’re considering what parenting and creating looks like during isolation with artists Tai Snaith and Ross Coulter.
What does it mean to be in isolation, but in isolation together? In this first edition of our new podcast series Faraway, so close, we take a personal look at solitude, creativity and the arts under COVID-19.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
First held in 1990 at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, Desert Mob is the oldest of Australia’s thriving annual program of Aboriginal art fairs. With its 30th anniversary coming up in September 2020, Kate Hennessy looks back on Desert Mob 2019.
We are watching more videos on our small screens than ever before, but how much of it is art? In an article originally published by Art Guide in October 2019, 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.
Overseas travel is off the agenda for the foreseeable future, but Adam Bushby has fossicked through our state galleries to unearth four renaissance paintings by European masters held closer to home; hidden gems on par with works in international collections. These paintings reside in Sydney and Melbourne, but even before isolation restrictions end, we can all visit them anytime online.
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