Yandel Walton wants us to be both alert and alarmed. Her exhibition Shifting Surrounds, at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, immerses visitors in the climate emergency.
Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, on at multiple Sydney Living Museums sites, invites audiences to reflect on the pleasures and pitfalls of selfie culture.
The vibrant multi-disciplinary works of Noongar artist Patrick William Carter are, in their way, love stories: love of family, music, Country and culture.
Energetic, famously outspoken and determined, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor transformed the MCA, allowing free access for all — and for most of her 20 years as director, she was the only female head of a major Australian art museum.
“Our country and culture has been there all the time, it is our strength, our dream, and our stories. No one can take that away from us. So, we’ve got to tell that story and share it.” – Jimmy Frank, Tennant Creek Brio
The 2021 Adelaide//International features works by James Tylor, Fayen d’Evie, Taloi Havini and Jesse Jones. Together, at the Samstag Museum of Art, they ponder what a more equitable future might hold.
Adam John Cullen views his sculptural vessels as a kind of biographical excavation: his latest show, Elton, references the name of his Grandmother’s childhood corgi-mix.
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
With an eye for capturing the colonial holds of history while communicating her profound spiritual connection to Country, in My Place – Before Marlene Gilson paints the history of her home.
Painter Jack Lanagan Dunbar uses copper and gestural mark-making to capture both the folly of humanity and the awesome power of nature in his solo show Signal, part of Art Month Sydney.
In his solo show at Macquarie University Art Gallery, Pandemic Bodies, Fan Dongwang tries to raise awareness of humanity’s shortcomings.
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.
Ahead of his major retrospective at Jan Murphy Gallery, Ben Quilty spoke with fellow painter Georgia Spain about wrestling with mythology, the contradictions of joy and suffering, and a belief in art as an antidote to an increasingly volatile world.
Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.
