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Jeweller Blanche Tilden has spent 25 years adorning people with unusual materials—from glass and metal to computer parts and bicycle chains.
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Jeweller Blanche Tilden has spent 25 years adorning people with unusual materials—from glass and metal to computer parts and bicycle chains.
Peter Wegner has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture in its centenary year with his Portrait of Guy Warren at 100.
Australian artists with an intellectual disability have for decades been creating important, rigorous and playful art. Historically these artists have been pushed to the periphery—but not any longer.
Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja, a renowned artist from the Western Kimberly region of Western Australia, was honoured with a prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Richard Bell’s art is a call for social justice that’s equally serious, poetic and darkly humorous. Here, the renowned Indigenous artist tells us the personal and compelling stories behind five of his artworks.
For over four decades William Yang has photographed moments of love and death, crisis and identity.
RISING, a new festival, launches polyphonic voices across the Melbourne CBD
From the painted miniatures of old to the photo on an iPhone lock screen, the bond between love and portraiture is a tale as old as time.
In From Australia: An Accumulation both artists and the general public use printmaking to respond to German curator René Block’s 1988 time capsule of Australian art. The exhibition, which starts at Latrobe Regional Gallery, will evolve as it tours during the next two years.
As a young man, George Gittoes followed the advice of Mother Teresa and dedicated himself to making inclusive art. Now 72, On Being There, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, records his life’s work, in and out of warzones.
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.
Heide Museum of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster exhibition is unveiling the breadth and beauty of Italian modernism through design. With over 170 objects spanning sixty years, Molto Bello explores the cultural impact of this period of creativity and invention.
In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.
Emma Phillips has a knack for catching moments of unbridled humanity. In her latest exhibition at ReadingRoom, she shines a light on the breadth of her practice, amalgamating several projects from the last decade.
