Silent Spring

The cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi’s presentation at Venice Biennale signals a long-simmering breakdown of trust between artists and institutions—one that risks threatening the breadth and depth of artistic expression in Australia for generations to come. Dee Jefferson reports.

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By Dee Jefferson | Published 14 May 2025

20 Questions: Laura Jones on painting processes

From painting rituals to an obsession with flowers, we caught up with Laura Jones to discuss her process and practice, her current solo show at Jan Murphy Gallery, and what it was like to win the Archibald Prize for her painting of Tim Winton.

Interview

By Sally Gearon | Published 09 May 2025

Julie Fragar wins the 2025 Archibald Prize

Congratulations to Julie Fragar, who has won the 2025 Archibald Prize for Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), her portrait of fellow artist and colleague Justene Williams.

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By Art Guide Australia | Published 09 May 2025

Phuong Ngo’s ancestral legacies

Phuong Ngo’s first major solo exhibition Inheritance, now showing at West Space, spans generations and continents, incorporates objects bought and sold across family lines, and draws on both spiritual and everyday rituals.

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By Bec Gallo | Published 07 May 2025

Tina Stefanou’s class acts

Traversing boundaries of the senses and of class, the work of Tina Stefanou is grounded in community. A solo exhibition at ACCA and a group exhibition at Bundanon showcase her work with unlikely collaborators.

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By Josephine Mead | Published 07 May 2025

Inside May/June 2025

Tina Stefanou’s equine collaborators feature on the cover of the May/June issue of Art Guide, which explores how art acts as an interface between the self and the world. Inside, we highlight an exhibition uniting trailblazing Indigenous artists with those currently or previously incarcerated, and profile twin brothers Man&Wah.

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Mostafa Azimitabar paints for humanity

Buoyed by the power of love and the spirit of artistic invention, Mostafa Azimitabar’s new solo exhibition at Maitland Regional Gallery turns dehumanising narratives on their head.

By Jasmeet Kaur Sahi | Published 16 Apr 2025

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Pia Murphy’s natural discoveries

Pia Murphy leans into curiosity for her latest exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Look What I Found is “referring to that experience in childhood of discovering surprising things in nature.” It’s a methodology Murphy uses in her practice, working with the sole intention of honest discovery.

By Sally Gearon | Published 08 May 2025

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Taja Vaetoru on tradition and intuition

Taja Vaetoru’s debut solo exhibition Idol, now showing .M Contemporary, explores their Polynesian ancestry, questions of tradition and worship, and how to intersect the past with the present.

By Sally Gearon | Published 01 May 2025

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A reason for paws

Cats & Dogs, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, explores the ways that the relationships we share with our pets are a source of strangeness and intimacy. But for Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, it’s also an exercise in the power of seeing and being seen.

By Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | Published 10 Apr 2025

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Gregory Hodge looks beyond the surface

The quietly evocative new paintings of Gregory Hodge, now showing at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, are a lesson in the places where abstraction and figuration intersect.

By Sally Gearon | Published 27 Feb 2025

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Tina Havelock Stevens: Everything all at once

Tina Havelock Stevens likes to feel the wind in her hair, which probably goes some way to explaining the generous punk spirit that infuses her multidisciplinary practice, the subject of the exhibition Now is a Beginning at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

By Jo Higgins | Published 23 Apr 2025

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Jose Dávila’s balancing act

In his first commercial presentation in Australia, one of Mexico’s most acclaimed contemporary artists uses his architectural background to create poetic, finely calibrated sculptural investigations of spatial perception, balance and equilibrium. Jose Dávila’s Physics of Uncertainty is now showing at COMA Gallery.

By Jo Higgins | Published 23 Apr 2025

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Anne Dangar: Uncovering a Cubist pioneer

A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra sheds light on the legacy of Anne Dangar, featuring over 180 objects that position her as a pioneer in European Cubism and Australian abstraction.

By Camilla Wagstaff | Published 04 Apr 2025

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Of art and appetites

Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.

By Lee Tran Lam | Published 02 Apr 2025

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Bruce Johnson McLean appointed First Nations curatorial fellow of the 2026 Biennale of Sydney

Bruce Johnson McLean, one of Australia’s leading voices on First Nations art, has been appointed the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain First Nations curatorial fellow for the next Biennale of Sydney. Steve Dow talks with Johnson McLean on his storied history, and what he hopes to achieve in the 2026 Biennale.

By Steve Dow | Published 16 Apr 2025

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Inside Sandra Black’s light-filled Fremantle studio

Sandra Black is best known for her distinctive carved and pierced porcelain vessels, which are now showing in a comprehensive survey show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. We step inside Black’s light-filled Fremantle studio, where she has worked since 1988.

By Rosamund Brennan | Published 15 Jan 2025

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Consuelo Cavaniglia’s tricks of the light

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.

By Jane O'Sullivan | Published 27 Feb 2025

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Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio

Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human.

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Silent Spring

By Dee Jefferson | Published 14 May 2025

20 Questions: Laura Jones on painting processes

By Sally Gearon | Published 09 May 2025

Julie Fragar wins the 2025 Archibald Prize

By Art Guide Australia | Published 09 May 2025

Phuong Ngo’s ancestral legacies

By Bec Gallo | Published 07 May 2025

Tina Stefanou’s class acts

By Josephine Mead | Published 07 May 2025

Inside May/June 2025

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A reason for paws

By Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | Published 10 Apr 2025

Gregory Hodge looks beyond the surface

By Sally Gearon | Published 27 Feb 2025

Tina Havelock Stevens: Everything all at once

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Jose Dávila’s balancing act

By Jo Higgins | Published 23 Apr 2025

Anne Dangar: Uncovering a Cubist pioneer

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Of art and appetites

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Bruce Johnson McLean appointed First Nations curatorial fellow of the 2026 Biennale of Sydney

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Current Issue

Our May/June 2025 issue is out now

Top 5 exhibitions to see this week

Face Value

Artbank Sydney

1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025

Curated by Helen Hughes & Spiros Panigirakis. Including Mutlu Çerkez, Damiano Bertoli and Masato Takasaka.

Gertrude Contemporary

Mother’s Little Helpers

Karla Dickens

Incinerator Gallery

Brian Blanchflower

Brian Blanchflower

MOORE CONTEMPORARY

Emma Thorp: The In Between

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery

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Inside Sandra Black’s light-filled Fremantle studio

By Rosamund Brennan | Published 15 Jan 2025

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s tricks of the light

By Jane O'Sullivan | Published 27 Feb 2025

Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio

By Michelle Wang | Published 26 Sep 2024

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