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Looking out, looking in
Playful and introspective, portraits from the Northern Beaches reveal a diverse artistic community.
Through the character of Sisyphina, Lou Conboy navigates myth, resilience and the craggy Tasmanian coast.
In ACE Open’s 2020 South Australian Artist Survey If the future is to be worth anything, the Adelaide-based contemporary art gallery invited artists and collectives to create new work, embarking upon unrealised projects.
The 2022 Biennale of Sydney is tipped to focus on sustainability and collaboration, with Colombian curator José Roca leading the way.
Suspended in an uncertain ‘new normal’, artists continue to find ways to work.
As a survey of textile artwork FIBRE presents a profusion of different themes, diving into process, tradition and community.
Playful and introspective, portraits from the Northern Beaches reveal a diverse artistic community.
Gangguan Tenggara – Edisi Indonesia is the fourth and final in Bega Valley Regional Gallery’s South/East Interference exhibition series.
Scars are evidence of injury, but they are also a mark of healing, resilience and survival.
A much-loved educator and mentor, Kate Daw was a quintessential Melbourne art-world figure and a significant artist of her generation.
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 her day, Hester was not just overlooked due to her subject matter and gender, but also because she chose drawing as her medium.
Neighbour – a friendly, flirty chat bot who is centred on uncovering one potent question: how does it feel?
The next Melbourne Art Fair has been rescheduled from 2021 to 2022.
Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs in September 2020.
Oracle, Brigita Ozolins hopes, may point to a potential future of positive change.
Inspired by being in lockdown, South Australian gallerist Paul Greenaway initiated an international online project. Sheridan Hart spoke to him, and two of the artists involved, about using art to cross borders and bring comfort.
Piccinini places human and non-human creatures in relationships that are as loving and empathic as they are unnerving.
Billy Missi believed in the power of art to make change.
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
How do you think about the future at a time when the future feels so uncertain? In this third edition of Faraway, so close, artists Cyrus Tang and Lucy McRae give their thoughts and feelings on where we are now, and where we’re headed next.
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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