As a conceptual and pop artist, a photographer and a painter, as well as an idiosyncratic art critic for two broadsheet newspapers, Robert Rooney wielded influence.
An overview of contemporary Australian art, Sydney’s The National: New Australian Art 2017 includes crucial works by Indigenous artists, Karla Dickens and Archie Moore.
After traversing England, Scotland, Germany, Canada, Shanghai, the Philippines and an array of Australian towns, modernist painter Ian Fairweather eventually settled on Queensland’s Bribie Island in 1953.
The Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize had its genesis in the Redlands highschool gym and has emerged as a heavyweight, with a month-long exhibition held each year at the National Art School in Sydney.
Digital code is the language of modern life, yet very few of us speak or understand it.
Keating and Johnstone’s video and sculpture-based installation at Canberra’s M16 is concerned with making connections across our growing digital terrain.
In our third feature story on artists and writers with shared interests, Indigenous artist Judy Watson and writer Louise Martin-Chew reminisce about childhood holidays on Stradbroke Island, just off the coast near Brisbane.
In her solo show, The Choreography of Cutting, Sally Smart has effectively traced her ongoing commitment to an investigation into three seemingly disparate topics: the historical Avant-Garde, traditional Indonesian folk art and the act of cutting.
Congratulations to Patricia Wilson-Adams, winner of the Burnie Print Prize 2017.
This exhibition, drawn from the QUT Art Museum’s largely post-1960 collection, dallies with a contemporary impulse to minimise, downsize and the mantra of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle.’
South Australia’s newest contemporary art organisation rises from the ashes of Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia CACSA) and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF).
Exhibitions range from a William Eggleston portrait show touring from London to local emerging artist Zoë Croggon’s new video/sculpture/collage/installation work that has a strong relationship to more traditional photography.
Mundamurra Ngijinda Dulk—My Island Home at Cairns Art Gallery, is a landmark exhibition dedicated to the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, one of the most singular voices in Australian contemporary painting.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
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.
In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour.
New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.
A survey exhibition spanning the 30-year practice of Jennifer Mills brings together bodies of works grounded in precision and tenderness at Bunjil Place Gallery.
