For over three decades Do Ho Suh has worked across forms like installation, sculpture and film to interrogate diaspora and concepts of belonging. Suh’s first Australian solo is now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art this summer.
Known as one of Australia’s iconic landscape artists of the 20th century, Fred Williams’s showing at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is an unprecedented collection of his drawings as a young artist in London—capturing everything from city workers to acrobats.
At a moment where politics and individuals feel increasingly divided, Eugenia Lim creates videos, film and installations that look beyond divisiveness, capitalism and exploitation, to forefront the power of collectivity—something she speaks to in our latest podcast series Conflated.
Tamara Dean has been capturing the intimate relationship between people interacting with the environment for over a decade. In her first monograph, published by Thames and Hudson, the artist offers generous insight on her critically acclaimed practice. Here, David Wenham reflects on Dean’s captivating work.
The Amazon is reaching a tipping point. Once a proportion of the rainforest is lost, it will no longer be able to hold the necessary moisture to create the rainfall to sustain itself. Massive dieback will occur with a devastating release of carbon into the atmosphere with a major global impact on climate change.
How does one make an artwork about this? One that possesses a dazzling beauty and, at the same time, has the ability to stop you in your tracks and shock you into action?
The ground-breaking and historic Melbourne Fringe Festival is being celebrated in a major exhibition at the State Library of Victoria. The show reflects on 40 years of Fringe while also looking 40 years ahead.
One of Australia’s most regarded living artists with a 60-year practice, Elisabeth Cummings creates captivating paintings that move in and out of abstract interiors, landscapes and still life. View, in pictures, Cummings’s enthralling new work at King Street Gallery on William.
Celebrating the art and design of the local Victorian community with over 200 artists and makers, Melbourne/Naarm NOW is returning to the The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, following its triumphant 2013 iteration.
In 1966 in the Northern Territory, 200 Gurindji workers pushed forward the land rights movement in Australia. Known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the strike protested Aboriginal land dispossession and worker exploitation. Now, Still in My Mind at ANU Drill Hall Gallery examines this significant moment.
“I think it is also about the fact that, in terms of power structures, artists want to remove mechanisms that hinder their capacity for creative freedom,” says artist, writer and curator David Cross in the second episode of our latest podcast, Conflated.
A major exhibition charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time. In collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre,Yolŋu Power: the art of Yirrkala is now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.
Blak In-Justice, now showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art, challenges the brutal systems that shape Indigenous incarceration in Australia—while charting the healing power of ancestral knowledge in the process.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
