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Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs
Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs in September 2020.
While physical galleries all around Australia may be closed for months, the necessity of invention may yet enrich art lovers worldwide with online innovation.
In light of COVID-19 shutdowns arts bodies around Australia have announced millions in new funding, programs and resources for artists, arts organisations and arts practitioners.
Revealing truths through rescued kitsch.
An exhibition focussed on so well-worn an artistic motif as flowers might, on the face of it, appear to be swimming against the tide of the current zeitgeist.
Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs in September 2020.
In The Long Kiss Goodbye, six artists transform old artworks, materials, ideas and images.
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.
Margolles insists that she isn’t an activist. “I am an artist and I use all the limitations of an artist,” she says.
As of Wednesday 25 March 2020 all galleries and museums Australia-wide will be closed, adhering to COVID-19 restrictions from the federal government. During this time Art Guide Australia will continue to publish and share the art, stories and ideas of artists across the country.
“As an Armenian, the concept of exile and genocide is not unfamiliar.”
Agnieszka Polska shows how photography has a complicated relationship to ‘truth’.
Photojournalist Barbara McGrady tells the stories behind her renowned images.
Rob Palmer has won the 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) with his colour photo of Sydney-based chef Josh Niland titled The mahi-mahi, 2019.
Sancintya Mohini Simpson unpacks a family history of indentured labour.
Through a classical Filipino dance form featuring long metal fingernails, artist Bhenji Ra explores the passing down of cultural knowledge.
The award acknowledges Andrew’s “outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian visual art.”
Industrial design meets straw marquetry via the age-old game of ‘exquisite corpse’.
“Drones have become this metaphor for our fear of technology” – Matthew Sleeth
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
“In some ways I don’t think of my life and art as separate things, I think it’s one in the same thing,” says artist Louise Weaver when speaking of her creative pursuits.
For David Hurlston curating is both a conceptual and physical process: he’s concerned with how viewers move through gallery spaces and how they read artworks. “It’s just about making a really tangible and interesting and educative experience, and I think that happens in the real world, in the real space,” he says.
We are watching more videos on our small screens than ever before, but how much of it is art? 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.
Melbourne-based artist and author Tai Snaith recently travelled to London as a finalist in the World Illustration Awards. In her postcard from London she delves into the tricky question: What’s the difference between art and illustration?
2019 is the international year of Indigenous languages. In recognition, Art Guide asked Anna Kenny to recall the journey she took to translate a more than 100-year-old dictionary written in German and three Aboriginal languages. Now in English, this multilingual dictionary is a powerful tool for preserving and propagating the use of several Indigenous languages in Central Australia.
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