Art Guide Australia

Vale Edmund Capon

Edmund Capon, who has died at the age of 78, served for 33 years as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), an institution with which his name remains indelibly linked.

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By Steve Dow
Age of Empire

Andrew Nicholls walked the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, partied in Venice, wore britches and white makeup in the piazze and hiked up aching-to-erupt volcanoes. Hyperkulturemia collects the artist’s forays into the romance and revelry of the tour.

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By Sheridan Coleman
Janet Laurence: After Nature

After Nature is filled with works that are aesthetically alluring and spectacular in scale.

Review

By Tracey Clement
Shifting Light: Lydia Wegner

The set-up of Lydia Wegner’s staged photographs is unassuming. Cast from readymade materials the results are otherworldly.

Preview

By Zara Sigglekow
Peta Clancy on massacre sites, memorialisation and memory

Undercurrent seeks to broaden how we acknowledge the Frontier Wars and massacre sites which scar country.

Interview

By Timmah Ball

Writing in the Expanded Field

Writing in the Expanded Field is a digital publication featuring contributions by 14 emerging writers who participated in a workshop of the same name, held at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in conjunction with their 2018 exhibition, Eva Rothschild: Kosmos.

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Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz: Activity Centres

Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz describe the link between their art practices as a feeling of “abundance within sparseness.”

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By Briony Downes

Michael Vale: Time Traveller

The Melbourne-based painter’s new exhibition at Despard Gallery in Hobart, Time Traveller, features characters and elements that are peculiar yet oddly familiar.

Preview

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

Catherine Truman: no surface holds

Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Interview

Peta Clancy on massacre sites, memorialisation and memory

Undercurrent seeks to broaden how we acknowledge the Frontier Wars and massacre sites which scar country.

By Timmah Ball

Feature

Ben Quilty: Bard of Compassion

Quilty aligns with a reflective period for the artist, as he considers how to pass on what he has learned to his children.

By Sheridan Coleman

Open House

The Lyon family throws open the doors to its newly minted Housemuseum Galleries with the aptly titled exhibition, Enter.

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By Andrew Stephens

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Brendan Huntley

“I wanted to sort of feel limitless and not be governed by any idea of scale – to make things I wasn’t sure how to transport. I didn’t want to think about it, I just wanted to go for it. And you get to a point with a certain scale that you just become comfortable and it’s not as exciting. Maybe also, I was past that point. I needed to feel almost threatened.” – Brendan Huntley

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

Buxton Contemporary

National Anthem

Top 5 Exhibitions

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

One Hundred and One Insect Life Stories

John Wolseley

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Shapes of Knowledge

Contemporary Art Tasmania

Shotgun 7

Grace Herbert

Hill Smith Gallery

Happy After Ever

Lisa Tomasetti

Recent Articles

Podcast: Fiona Abicare on the adventures of mediums

Fiona Abicare works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context.

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By Tiarney Miekus

Interview: Darren Sylvester

“These aesthetic choices are my history. My culture is pop culture. My background is TV, not religion or spirituality. I can only speak of my own life: I’m trying to make sense of it all, like everyone.” —Darren Sylvester

Interview

By Varia Karipoff

Cultural Ambassadors

Adelaide//International finds artists raising the question of who holds the power of narration in a series of four solo exhibitions.

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By Zara Sigglekow

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Like Fire and Water At Once

Musician and performance artist Rainbow Chan sends a postcard from Beijing where she spent a month in the Chinese autumn of 2018 as one of four Australian artists selected by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

By Rainbow Chan

Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes

In Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis and Catherine Speck trace the history and impact of Australian art exhibitions, from the mid 20th century to the present day.