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Vale James Mollison
“Art is more enjoyable if you look at it hard and long, than if you look at it idly and in passing.”
With a practice spanning three decades, Louise Weaver is well-known for her meticulously crochet-encased animal forms.
Seeking out inhospitable environments, Eloise Kirk is drawn to the unpredictable.
Alex Seton is known for his marble sculptures. These carved stone works often mimic the soft folds of fabric, but they have a hard political edge.
For the Manly Dam Project, the third in a series in which artists work with scientists, senior curator Katherine Roberts has invited eight artists to respond to cultural, environmental and historical themes associated with the area.
In her solo show Losing Home, Finding Home, Mika Nakamura-Mather examines both the fragmentary nature of memory and the quest for belonging.
“Art is more enjoyable if you look at it hard and long, than if you look at it idly and in passing.”
As the fascination for seeing artists at work grows, galleries are creating opportunities to view the creative process in real time.
Given the growing spectre of man-made global warming, artist Amrita Hepi says it is important to consider First Nations knowledge of land and sea.
At the heart of the group exhibition FEM-aFFINITY is intersectional, inclusive feminism.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of insiders share their thoughts on what exhibitions they're planning to see and why.
Once popular, then shunned in favour of sobering modernity, yokai – the catchall term for Japan’s ghosts, demons and mythical creatures – are back.
Fostering a relationship between art, architecture and design is the long-term goal of the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries.
In Tama Sharman’s practice, the world is animated and dark sepia spirits roam as he creates works that involve personal stories, both factual and fictional.
I’ve always approached Primavera, the MCA’s annual showcase for artists aged 35 years or younger, less like a novel and more like a box of chocolates. In other words, rather that looking for a clear narrative I enjoy dipping into a mixed bag of treats.
A Country Practice was a much beloved television series from the eighties, filmed in and around the Hawkesbury region. Hawkesbury Regional Gallery curators Rebecca Turnbull and Diana Robson have brought together a selection of archived film, scrapbooks, costume props, vintage knitting patterns and original sketches for the exhibition The Wonders of Wandin Valley.
Grayson Perry takes to the stage in a one-person show, Them & Us, covering everything from politics and fashion to art and childhood toys. Briony Downes spoke to Perry ahead of his upcoming appearances in Sydney and Melbourne.
Across Australia, the arts community is rallying together to support those impacted by devastating bushfires. Art Guide has compiled a round-up of fundraising exhibitions and relief efforts by artists, galleries and arts organisations, which we will continue to update in the coming weeks.
Urs Fischer’s four-metre red wax sculpture, Francesco, 2017, is designed to be lit and slowly melted like a candle. Recently acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), the sculpture’s decomposition is being documented on social media—and attracting lively discussion.
The State Library of Victoria’s Velvet, Iron, Ashes exhibition features disparate content: from the Ashes urn and Freddo Frog to Ned Kelly and the history of Yallourn.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
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.
Along with being an independent curator, Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer and artist who continuously looks at the dynamics of power, systemic racism and racial hierarchies within a contemporary art context.
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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