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On the Inside

Incarceration is a long chapter in Australia’s history; a new exhibition looks at how detention continues to impact the world.

Feature

By Briony Downes
Brook Andrew appointed artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney

Brook Andrew will be the artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (BoS), due to be held in 2020.

News

By Art Guide Australia
Gerwyn Davies: Fur

Gerwyn Davies proves yet again that dressing up isn’t just fun and games.

Review

By Tracey Clement
This Is Tomorrow

By the time I was in my teens in the mid-70s, the optimism of the 1960s had faded into the dystopian grime of the late Cold War.

Opinion

By Andrew Frost
Aldo Iacobelli: A Conversation with Jheronimus

The more things change, the more they stay the same. What can a 500-year-old triptych by Hieronymus Bosch tell us about the current political climate?

Feature

By Briony Downes
Belynda Henry: Landscape Lines

“Dooralong is just a valley populated by horses, cows and trees, but it’s very beautiful to me,” says Belynda Henry of her home in New South Wales.

Preview

By Zara Sigglekow

Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia

Welcome to Country is a travel guide with a difference. In this book Professor Marcia Langton AM offers practical tourism tips for travellers eager to engage with Indigenous Australia, as well as insights in to language, customs and history.

artplus

By Book Extract

Black Hole

Shane Cotton, a New Zealand artist of Pakeha (white New Zealander) and Mãori descent is referred to as a ‘history painter’.

Review

By Zara Sigglekow

Pujiman artists together with younger artists

The pujiman, meaning bush or desert born, were the last Indigenous Australians to live entirely nomadically.

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Richard Griffiths goes Back to Burra Bee Dee

Showing at Devonport Regional Gallery, the Burnie-based artist’s work explores his ancestors’ past, alongside the emotion and memory of living on an Aboriginal mission.

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Preview

Alice, Interrupted

In Brooke Leigh’s video Searching For Alice, 2015-2017, scenes of a deciduous forest bereft of leaves are interspersed with close-up shots of a young woman’s mouth.

By Tracey Clement

News

Andrew Browne wins Geelong contemporary art prize

Congratulations to Andrew Browne who has been awarded the $30,000 Geelong contemporary art prize for 2018.

By Art Guide Australia

Interview: Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean is known for her photographic works that document subjects who are often engaged in some quiet interaction with the natural environment.

Interview

By Varia Karipoff

Studio

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Jan Nelson

“When people look at my work they think they’re so real, they’re portraits of people. But in actual fact, they’re not.” – Jan Nelson

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

The Incinerator Gallery

standing still; looking back, looking forward

Top 5 Exhibitions

Darren Knight Gallery

Rob McHaffie

Arts Project Australia

Auto Body Works

QUT Art Museum and William Robinson Gallery

Salon de Fleurus

Cowra Regional Art Gallery

Making a Splash; Mermaids and Modernity

Art+

The alarming beauty of suffering

As an artist and Buddhist Lachlan Warner outlines below, some artists (himself included) have sought a deeper understanding of the Buddhist notion of suffering through making.

By Lachlan Warner

The Expanded Field of Printmaking

Considering the nexus between contemporary art practice and printed matter by focusing on four recent collaborative projects.

By Trent Walter

New Horizons

What is the pull of the small town and why do artists choose to live and work in regional locations? Briony Downes talks to three artists from around Australia to find out the unique challenges and rewards linked to living outside the city.

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On the Inside

Feature

By Briony Downes

Brook Andrew appointed artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney

News

By Art Guide Australia

Gerwyn Davies: Fur

Review

By Tracey Clement

This Is Tomorrow

Opinion

By Andrew Frost

Aldo Iacobelli: A Conversation with Jheronimus

Feature

By Briony Downes

Belynda Henry: Landscape Lines

Preview

By Zara Sigglekow

Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia

artplus

By Book Extract

Black Hole

Review

By Zara Sigglekow

Pujiman artists together with younger artists

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Richard Griffiths goes Back to Burra Bee Dee

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Preview

Alice, Interrupted

By Tracey Clement

News

Andrew Browne wins Geelong contemporary art prize

By Art Guide Australia

Interview: Tamara Dean

Interview

By Varia Karipoff

Studio

Jan Nelson

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

The Incinerator Gallery

standing still; looking back, looking forward

Top 5 Exhibitions

Darren Knight Gallery

Rob McHaffie

Arts Project Australia

Auto Body Works

QUT Art Museum and William Robinson Gallery

Salon de Fleurus

Cowra Regional Art Gallery

Making a Splash; Mermaids and Modernity

Recent Articles

MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

Feature

By Varia Karipoff

Podcast: Patricia Piccinini’s curious affection

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Stieg Persson: Polyphonic

Feature

By Andrew Stephens

Art+

The alarming beauty of suffering

By Lachlan Warner

The Expanded Field of Printmaking

By Trent Walter

New Horizons

By Briony Downes

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