Ochre Painters of the Kimberley at Japingka Aboriginal Art features paintings from the likes of Jack Britten, Shirley Purdie, Queenie McKenzie and Rover Thomas—and many works have never been publicly displayed until now.
Artist-run and experimental spaces are central to Australian art. While scores of such spaces exist throughout Australian art history, we asked five artists—Bonita Ely, David Chesworth, Diego Ramirez, Kenny Pittock and Michael Lindeman—to tell us about their early works in experimental spaces, and how these formative experiences became pivotal to their practices.
The last few years have been characterised by grief and loss, alongside an unwavering hope for a flourishing future—it’s a dichotomy many artists are trying to capture, which Sam Jinks does exquisitely in his latest show at Sullivan+Strumpf Melbourne.
Many artists have boycotted arts events and organisations over unethical funding and partnership concerns. But, asks Timmah Ball, should this burden always be placed on artists alone, particularly when the ability to boycott is its own privilege?
From a ‘Eulogy for the Dyke Bar’ to ‘Queering the Collection’, there’s a dazzling, poignant array of major Sydney WorldPride exhibitions opening this February, all across the city.
Summer 2023-2024 will see three major, pioneering artists showing across the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
With current debates in the Australian media landscape on who should review a work of art, Sophia Cai questions the myth of critical neutrality.
With a 25-year practice confronting colonial histories, First Nations artist Archie Moore will represent Australia in the 60th Venice Biennale, calling on family history—“something I avoided and was wary of going there”—as “one component” of the project. He’s also the second solo Indigenous artist to represent Australia at the global art event.
Why are we so hard on pink? Thinking Through Pink at Wollongong Art Gallery revels in a lush, complicated colour.
“I never grew up with representation in those queer spaces, so creating my own works has really helped.” In stunning moments of joy and connection, Dylan Mooney’s art depicts the love between queer Indigenous people.
To mark the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Archibald Prize, Art Guide asked 10 Australian artists to each choose a past winner, one from each decade.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
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.
Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.
In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.
