“Objects are just things we can touch, smell and see,” explains filmmaker Maddie Grammatopoulos when talking about what makes a house a home. Her award-winning film Which Made This Place Home is showing at Praxis Art Space.
“Even now, after doing it for 40 years, it’s an adventure and it’s terrifying,” says Cressida Campbell of her practice combining painting and printmaking techniques. Now, she has a major survey at the National Gallery of Australia.
In 1847, ten South Sea Islander men were seen walking down Sydney Road in Melbourne—but who are these men? Aboriginal, South Sea and Pacific Islander artists are making this hidden history known at Counihan Gallery, revealing its impact today.
“What is the dream in terms of what I can create?” asks Hannah Brontë. An artist and DJ, Brontë is using art to imagine a freer society with the spirit of true collectivity, with a new solo show at UTS Gallery.
A renowned curator and director of Ikon gallery in Birmingham, Jonathan Watkins talks about making contemporary art accessible while not reducing its potency, and what will define this current period of art.
Since 1770, the British Spode brand has famously popularised the blue-and-white Chinese Willow pattern. A design routinely found on dinner tables, artists at Fremantle Arts Centre are reclaiming this globalised ‘misinterpretation’ to show its colonial logic.
Prizes are a chance to celebrate artists but the reasons why they choose to enter, and why prize organisers put up the cash, point towards growing cracks in the art world. Are we supporting a diverse range of artists, or are we gamifying the system?
In late 2021 Melbourne artist Damiano Bertoli died unexpectedly. He was 52. An artist who worked across many forms, Bertoli was deeply embedded in the Melbourne arts community. For Bertoli’s retrospective at Neon Parc, we asked artists Darcey Bella Arnold and Yanni Florence, writer Amelia Winata, and Neon Parc director Geoff Newton, to each reflect on one of Bertoli’s works.
D and Kate Harding are descendants of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, and have strong continuous connections to the internationally significant heritage site of Carnarvon Gorge in central Queensland.
We wanted to know: is work by women generally valued differently to work by men because it is of a lower artistic quality, or is it just discrimination?
Sydney Contemporary begins today! With a staggering array of galleries, artists and artworks showing (there’s over 450 artists), we’ve asked writer and curator Chloé Wolifson to tell us what you can’t miss from this year’s event, taking place until this Sunday 11 September.
For his latest show at STATION Gallery (Sydney), Michael Staniak is expressing his acute awareness of how screen and digital media influence our understanding of the world.
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.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.
Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.
