The Nolan slates are rapidly executed small paintings on irregularly-shaped broken tiles, salvaged from a building site close to Sidney Nolan’s Melbourne studio in the early 1940s. They have extraordinary power, especially for such small works.
Rather than throwing everything into a stack and seeing if it sticks, Gupta builds his stacks in a deliberate, loaded manner whereby the process says as much as the result.
Torrid and tempestuous, Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s personal relationship produced influential works that were as self-referential as they were ostensibly surreal.
A touring retrospective of Bella Kelly’s work at John Curtin Gallery.
Outside the art scene, it may not be understood that, for the selected Australian artist, the Venice Biennale is an opportunity of Olympian stature.
Glenda Orr’s Log: Filter-Frame-Forest, is a restrained yet revolutionary exhibition.
Ngarrindjeri weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Red Ochre Award.
It was a “lovely fluke”, says exhibition curator Una Rey, that Black White & Restive opened on the first day of National Reconciliation Week this year. But to focus solely on that, she explains, would be misleading.
Drawn from founder and director Judith Neilson’s ever-expanding collection, the show features more than 30 videos, paintings, drawings, sculptures and multimedia installations by Chinese artists.
The Winter Masterpieces series opening in June 2018 will feature 150 iconic works from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
An exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT) pays tribute to Bellear’s work.
More than 3000 pieces are on display, representing only 75 per cent of Roche’s collection…
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.
Gabriela Burkhalter’s The Playground Project at Incinerator Gallery reinvents the typically serious installation space, inviting children to play, reminding us of its importance within the arts.
Embodied, the first iteration of Arts Project Australia’s new exhibition series, Limitless, sees artists Bronwyn Hack and Mark Smith create their most ambitious works yet, with the body at the centre of it all.
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.
