“People are interested in what I want to say, and how I want to say it,” says Bruno Booth, who makes art that challenges the ableist world—but he’d rather you call him a ‘con artist’ than a contemporary artist. He’s also a current finalist in the 2022 John Stringer Prize at John Curtin Gallery.
Known for his works combining technology and ochre, Robert Andrew talks candidly about the power dynamics and frustrations with language, discovering his Aboriginal heritage, and becoming an artist later in life. Revisit our interview with Andrew before the closing of his major solo at Museum of Old and New Art (Mona).
Sandra Selig uses everyday materials to uncover the hidden forces around us—from spiderwebs to celestial forms. Selig’s largest exhibition to date is now showing at the University of New South Wales Galleries.
For over a decade John Young has distinctively approached colour and form to highlight overlooked narratives of Chinese people in Australia since 1840. His latest exhibition, None Living Knows, is now showing at Moore Contemporary.
Madame Mystery is not a real person, but you can text her to learn your fortune. And she’s a key character in Anna Carey’s latest miniature photographs at Artereal Gallery.
The art world may be becoming a more diverse place, but are we really revolutionising who we consider ‘masters’?
From Polly Borland’s glittering photograph of Queen Elizabeth to Maree Clarke’s tremendously stitched possum skin cloak, to John Nixon’s cross painting, the exhibition Who Are You: Australian Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery is centered on challenging the traditional conventions of portraiture.
For the past ten months, I have photographed hundreds of people in the Western Sydney suburb of Parramatta for a portrait project called Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook.
What does it mean to be a craft practitioner in 2022? Four younger and emerging artists—Zaiba Khan, Anna Varendorff, James Lemon and Claudia Lau—speak about their craft practices, their inclusion in Craft Contemporary 2022, and the challenges facing young creatives—from skills to money to risk-taking.
“The ideas that we attribute to bodies are arbitrary and often accepted, but don’t really exist,” says Zoë Bastin in our latest podcast series, Conflated—which links to a nationally touring exhibition of the same title, opening this week at ANU School of Art and Design Gallery. Bastin talks about the show, as well as dance, queer politics, shame, and how bodies are objectified in art and life.
Departing from her training in figurative painting, Lucy Turnbull’s Riverside exhibition at Sauerbier House embraces how conversations with the local community give new artistic expression.
Kendal Murray’s miniature sculptures are a fascinating combination of materials including repurposed domestic objects ranging from crockery and compact mirrors to children’s toys. For Murray, these items become the foundation for her to create new worlds. Murray’s captivating and inventive works are now showing at Flinders Lane Gallery.
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.
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.
Whether beloved pets or superstitious omens, animals have always existed in art. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia’s latest exhibition is paying tribute to two of the most beloved animal figures: cats and dogs.
Whether looking for the perfect Christmas gift or searching for a summer read, we have selected some of our favourite art books of 2024—spanning everything from comprehensive gallery monographs to notable exhibition catalogues and self-published artist books.
