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MPRG: FIFTY
Opening up 50 years of contemporary art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Artist and ‘feral trader’ Kate Rich asks how artists might shake up business as usual.
“How good can we get something to look, that’s got no value, really?” says artist Natalie Thomas. “I use $2 shop paint generally. I just look around at what I’ve got access to and use it, see how good I can get it.”
With ambition and an urgency fitting for the times, this year’s Tarnanthi exhibition honours Blak matriarchies.
Tracey Clement spoke to the Melbourne-based painter about his ongoing environmental concerns, Spanish heritage and his instinct to turn to imaginary creatures for inspiration during lockdown.
Good news for Melbourne with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) announcing today that the NGV Triennial is due to open on 19 December.
Opening up 50 years of contemporary art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Barbara Cleveland is a mythic persona reclaimed from 1970s Australian art history. A new retrospective explores her ‘forgotten’ life and practice—which is to say, the forgotten practices of non-male creatives at large.
Hosted by Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Sarah crowEST’s newest piece Sound Seen is currently online.
In Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists, Abigail Crompton presents the work of more than 20 Australian and international artists that, in her words, tell a story of “resilience, tenacity, sacrifice and steely determination.”
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.
A sense of the uncanny echoes through many of the works in Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020.
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
Samson Young composes for instruments that can never exist, breathing life into musical impossibilities.
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles in which we turn the spotlight on a single artwork, Tracey Clement takes a close look at Ben Quilty’s recent painting, 2020, and talks to the artist about how he sees the world. A range of paintings from the same series can be viewed in Quilty’s solo show, Still life after the virus, at Jan Murphy Gallery from 27 October – 21 November 2020.
A tribute to artist Geoff Dyer, a charismatic and much-loved figure in the Tasmanian cultural scene, who passed away on 8 October 2020, aged 73.
For the second feature in Art Guide Australia’s series which focuses on a single artwork, Tracey Clement examines another piece which addresses the climate crisis. She burst into tears watching Laresa Kosloff’s online video, Radical Acts, and spoke to the artist about telling stories with dark humour.
Coelho creates porcelain objects that marry expert technique to timeless evocations of functional forms.
Panic Buy, a collaborative exhibition by Tiyan Baker and Guy Louden, is a unique innovative deconstruction of a pandemic-induced phenomenon.
For over 60 years John Wolseley has been visiting, capturing and sharing his experience of landscapes. But what does it mean to create and innovate over six decades?
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.
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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