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Making marks, mapping Country
Inside the singular practice of renowned Yolŋu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu.
This week for Your weekly online art list our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Sidney McMahon’s latest exhibition viewable online at the Goulburn Regional Gallery website, virtual art jigsaw puzzles from Bunbury Regional Gallery, Next Wave launching their ASSEMBLE! program, lockdown responsive texts from Contemporary Art Tasmania, and much more.
In Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide takes a peek at what artists have on their bookshelves. In this second iteration, Tracey Clement spoke to Sam Doctor about making sense of a global pandemic through reading and finding some hope in the midst of the crisis.
“Extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting” works produced through The Torch program reveal artists connecting with culture, identity and Country.
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.
Neha Kale unpacks the art world’s complicated relationship with money and power.
Inside the singular practice of renowned Yolŋu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu.
“Addressing climate change is a moral imperative … it is going to take a myriad of different approaches to address this crisis.”
Now that we’re all confined to our living spaces, Jenna Pippett and Tanya Lee are taking the shift philosophically at Adelaide Central Gallery.
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.
Like many of us, Andrew Frost is spending a lot of time literally on the couch clutching his phone. He contemplates the valuable generosity of both sharing and creating culture on social media, making the world a tiny bit better.
Examining pivotal movements that shaped Australian art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)’s lecture series ‘Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1969–1999’ is going online.
Drawing from local places and found objects, Brisbane artist Erika Scott conjures community and connection.
In our new series Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide finds out what artists have on their bookshelves. Tracey Clement spoke to Caroline Rannersberger about reading in these troubled times.
This week our online editor Tracey Clement recommends online art highlights including podcasts from the Museum of Contemporary Art, singers taking over the empty Art Gallery of New South Wales, indigenous stories from Koori Heritage Trust, 52 ARTISTS/52 ACTIONS relaunching online, and much more.
In the first of Art Guide’s new series on artists cooking, Jane O’Sullivan spoke to Tai Snaith, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, and James Tylor about their edible creations and asked them to share some of their favourite recipes.
Kaldor Public Art Project launches its first initiative that will take place wholly within the digital sphere. Project 36 invites 15 Australian artists, and audiences everywhere, to just do it.
As a result of the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, Sydney Contemporary has announced that it will not present an edition of the fair in 2020.
In this time of social distancing, three large-scale online quilting projects are bringing communities together.
What does it mean to be in isolation, but in isolation together? In this first edition of our new podcast series Faraway, so close, we take a personal look at solitude, creativity and the arts under COVID-19.
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.
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.
She Persists is both a hardcopy book and an online hub of 34 essays (and podcasts). Together they examine the important role of women in art and design by taking a closer look at works in the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection.
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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