Lauded by almost everyone, the Biennale has been called “confrontational” and “consequential,” often followed by the fact that it’s the first time the event has been curated by an Indigenous director; artist Brook Andrew.
Channelling healing and transformation, the moment has never been more timely for Hiromi Tango’s emotive creations.
Across the country some galleries are open, while others have had to close, but the online sphere remains absolutely jam-packed with art content, from dedicated online exhibitions and art lessons to behind-the-scenes access to collections. Tracey Clement has handpicked a few online excursions that we can all take, no matter where we are.
Lightning bolts, smiley faces, Buddhism and rock’n’roll: Nell draws on a catalogue of symbols to conjure the moments where language fails.
Cooking food and making art both require skill and imagination. In the third part of Art Guide’s Kitchen Creation series, artists Cigdem Aydemir, Ellen Dahl and Sebastian Moody share some of their favourite recipes and talk to Tracey Clement about the creativity of cooking.
Kylie Stillman’s silhouetted carvings of natural forms, such as trees and birds, are built up slowly over days and weeks, hollowed out from stacks of reinforced paper or timber with hand tools, knives and jigsaws.
Hard and soft, volatile and permanent; Teelah George plays with paradoxes in textiles and bronze.
Working from the APY Lands, Robert Fielding blends Indigenous tradition and culture with innovative forms.
Showing serene images of family life on a cattle farm south of Perth, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah captures poignant and fun insights into parenting and creating.
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.
Giselle Stanborough’s Cinopticon was relevant well before the current pandemic crisis. But as our personal and professional lives are moving online rapidly and more comprehensively than ever, Stanborough’s research takes on a kind of chilling urgency.
Hiromi Tango shares images of her Tweed Heads home life, including her gardening abode and recent harvest.
Our 24-hour news cycle and click-driven media landscape can be exhausting, yet experimental photographer Jacinta Giles is channelling this reliance on news into art.
Through the medium of sound and the act of listening, Lawrence English mines power and control.
In Rogue: Art of a Garden landscape designer Rick Eckersley discusses his philosophy and the art of gardening.
William Yang has sent us snaps of his life in Sydney, capturing his shrines and studio, and small ephemera from his day-to-day.
Thanks to countless sitcoms, the nuanced realities of office work are common knowledge. Not so with agriculture.
For over four decades William Yang has photographed moments of love and death, crisis and identity.
How do you think about the future at a time when the future feels so uncertain? In this third edition of Faraway, so close, artists Cyrus Tang and Lucy McRae give their thoughts and feelings on where we are now, and where we’re headed next.
In this second edition of Faraway, so close—a podcast dedicated to considering the anxieties and opportunities emerging in the arts in our new COVID-19 world—we’re considering what parenting and creating looks like during isolation with artists Tai Snaith and Ross Coulter.
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.
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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