The stories we tell
Working from the APY Lands, Robert Fielding blends Indigenous tradition and culture with innovative forms.
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Working from the APY Lands, Robert Fielding blends Indigenous tradition and culture with innovative forms.
Showing serene images of family life on a cattle farm south of Perth, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah captures poignant and fun insights into parenting and creating.
Giselle Stanborough’s Cinopticon was relevant well before the current pandemic crisis. But as our personal and professional lives are moving online rapidly and more comprehensively than ever, Stanborough’s research takes on a kind of chilling urgency.
Hiromi Tango shares images of her Tweed Heads home life, including her gardening abode and recent harvest.
Lauded by almost everyone, the Biennale has been called “confrontational” and “consequential,” often followed by the fact that it’s the first time the event has been curated by an Indigenous director; artist Brook Andrew.
Our 24-hour news cycle and click-driven media landscape can be exhausting, yet experimental photographer Jacinta Giles is channelling this reliance on news into art.
Through the medium of sound and the act of listening, Lawrence English mines power and control.
Across the country some galleries are open, while others have had to close, but the online sphere remains absolutely jam-packed with art content, from dedicated online exhibitions and art lessons to behind-the-scenes access to collections. Tracey Clement has handpicked a few online excursions that we can all take, no matter where we are.
Channelling healing and transformation, the moment has never been more timely for Hiromi Tango’s emotive creations.
Cooking food and making art both require skill and imagination. In the third part of Art Guide’s Kitchen Creation series, artists Cigdem Aydemir, Ellen Dahl and Sebastian Moody share some of their favourite recipes and talk to Tracey Clement about the creativity of cooking.
William Yang has sent us snaps of his life in Sydney, capturing his shrines and studio, and small ephemera from his day-to-day.
Lightning bolts, smiley faces, Buddhism and rock’n’roll: Nell draws on a catalogue of symbols to conjure the moments where language fails.
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.
Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s major retrospective on singular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, we invited four artists to respond to the influence of Kusama on their own practice—and meditate on what her work means to them.
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.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
