Art in rising temperatures
“Addressing climate change is a moral imperative … it is going to take a myriad of different approaches to address this crisis.”
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“Addressing climate change is a moral imperative … it is going to take a myriad of different approaches to address this crisis.”
Now that we’re all confined to our living spaces, Jenna Pippett and Tanya Lee are taking the shift philosophically at Adelaide Central Gallery.
This week for Your weekly online art list our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Sidney McMahon’s latest exhibition viewable online at the Goulburn Regional Gallery website, virtual art jigsaw puzzles from Bunbury Regional Gallery, Next Wave launching their ASSEMBLE! program, lockdown responsive texts from Contemporary Art Tasmania, and much more.
In Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide takes a peek at what artists have on their bookshelves. In this second iteration, Tracey Clement spoke to Sam Doctor about making sense of a global pandemic through reading and finding some hope in the midst of the crisis.
Examining pivotal movements that shaped Australian art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)’s lecture series ‘Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1969–1999’ is going online.
“Extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting” works produced through The Torch program reveal artists connecting with culture, identity and Country.
Drawing from local places and found objects, Brisbane artist Erika Scott conjures community and connection.
In our new series Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide finds out what artists have on their bookshelves. Tracey Clement spoke to Caroline Rannersberger about reading in these troubled times.
This week our online editor Tracey Clement recommends online art highlights including podcasts from the Museum of Contemporary Art, singers taking over the empty Art Gallery of New South Wales, indigenous stories from Koori Heritage Trust, 52 ARTISTS/52 ACTIONS relaunching online, and much more.
In the first of Art Guide’s new series on artists cooking, Jane O’Sullivan spoke to Tai Snaith, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, and James Tylor about their edible creations and asked them to share some of their favourite recipes.
Kaldor Public Art Project launches its first initiative that will take place wholly within the digital sphere. Project 36 invites 15 Australian artists, and audiences everywhere, to just do it.
As a result of the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, Sydney Contemporary has announced that it will not present an edition of the fair in 2020.
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With a current exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.
In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.
Hobart-based Max Mueller’s In the Sticks exhibition at Handmark Gallery features oil-on-linen works that show tranquil scenes of Tasmania, musing on how nature is managed and maintained in a context of civilisation and curation.
