For many Melbournians their first experience with the not-for-profit arts sector is with West Space, the influential institution that is now celebrating its 25th year of existence.
Everyday Shrines asks the question: what would it look like if Thai superstitions and rituals were applied to Australia’s national icons?
The natural world is recast through the lens of a lover, not a fighter, in Sensual Nature.
George Tjungurrayi’s brightly coloured paintings seem to hover in the darkened space at Carriageworks.
Impressionism is beloved by Australian audiences, there’s no doubt about it. While firmly grounded in realism and representational art, it is also in many instances, an abandonment of form and line to chase instead, the momentary and the luminous.
Lee Grant has been awarded the National Photographic Portrait Prize for her black-and-white portrait Charlie, and Filomena Rizzo was highly commended for the photograph of her daughter, My Olivia.
“Painting is something that I am endlessly challenged and fascinated by. And I struggle with it,” Maestri says.
The APY Art Centre Collective is an organisation that supports 10 Indigenous owned and governed enterprises who work from the APY Lands in northern South Australia.
Artbank opens their new premises in Collingwood, Melbourne.
Conjoined mouths. The Sydney Opera House. At the Biennale of Sydney, artist Oliver Beer uses unorthodox instruments to explore sound.
Melbourne-based artist Gail Hastings won the $25,000 established artist category with her mixed media drawing colour circle: four colour scheme for a room, 2018. Sydney-based emerging artist Adrian McDonald was awarded $10,000 for his painting, Approximating a Circle, 2018.
Recently Withey’s practice has focused on the environment and how the human presence effects it.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s major retrospective on singular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, we invited four artists to respond to the influence of Kusama on their own practice—and meditate on what her work means to them.
un Magazine was conceived to champion courageous art criticism in an art world too often shaped by power and influence, a mission that still endures two decades on.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
