Feature
Festivals put craft on the horizon
Combining ancient technologies with digital platforms, craft festivals stitch and solder new connections across oceans and online.
Sheridan Hart
Archive
Podcast
The Long Run #7: Stelarc on what the body can do
Whether placing an artwork in his stomach, actualising a body with a third hand, giving his agency over to performance viewers, and rather famously growing an extra ear on his arm, Stelarc has gone to true extremes.
Tiarney Miekus
Archive
Feature
News, sport, weather and… arts?
What if we had arts news like we have sports news? A new online, artist-led petition is asking for just this, and it’s already gathered thousands of signatures from high-profile artists.
Steve Dow
Archive
Feature
Smartphone Snaps: Richard Lewer
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer keeps busy both painting and walking.
Art Guide Australia
Archive
Feature
Kunmanara Carroll honoured as JamFactory ICON
Kunmanara Carroll has been honoured as the first Indigenous artist in JamFactory’s ICON series. Sadly, his exhibition Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki had only been open for a short time when he passed away. He is now referred to as Kunmanara Carroll out of respect.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Archive
Feature
Smartphone Snaps: William Broadhurst
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, photographer William Broadhurst focuses on how his camera keeps him connected to his suburban neighbourhood.
Art Guide Australia
Archive
Feature
Experiencing art from home: studio visits, tactile sculptures and how a tapestry is made
With multiple Australian cities now in lockdown, and density limits still at play in other cities, we’ve curated a refined shortlist of online virtual galleries, videos and podcasts you can view, watch and listen to from the comfort of home.
Anna Dunnill
Archive
Feature
Joan Ross on history and hi-vis
With myriad references to museum curios, colonial landowners, and lashings of highlighter yellow, Joan Ross’s aesthetic is instantly recognisable. The Sydney-based artist, whose exhibition ‘Land of the Broken Hearted’ is currently on display at Bett Gallery Hobart, shares the stories behind five of her recent works.
Briony Downes
Archive
Preview
In Hapyhazard Michael Gromm offers a luminous blend of order and chaos
In Hapyhazard, online at Flinders Lane Gallery, Michael Gromm performs a lyrical dance between figuration and abstraction.
Briony Downes
Archive
Interview
Curator Lee Kinsella talks about the weight and grit of women’s art
Curator Lee Kinsella discusses mining the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for works that embody a kind of transformative material alchemy.
Tracey Clement
Archive
Feature
Caroline Rothwell on our botanical worlds
From drawing with fossil fuel by-products, to creating art from historical botanical books, Caroline Rothwell looks at the increasingly complex relationship between humans and nature.
Briony Downes
Archive
Feature
Smartphone Snaps: Karen Black
In her Smartphone Snaps photo essay, Karen Back offers an intimate glimpse of her locked-down life and the local colour that keeps her smiling.
Art Guide Australia
Archive
