Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
A sense of the uncanny echoes through many of the works in Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020.
Khadim Ali traces the lines that keep us apart in Invisible Border, his largest solo show to date, at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
A faux Esther Williams gets a Brazilian butt lift in Meat Mirror, a schlock horror collaborative show by Jay Younger and Lisa O’Neill in the 2021 Brisbane Art Design (BAD) festival.
Hairstyling, selfies and making a magazine: how a remote arts organisation keeps young people connected to Country.
In 2019 the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects as part of their Living Treasures series. The exhibition is still touring the nation and has recently arrived at Design Tasmania.
After three decades of playing with colour, Jurek Wybraniec has pared his materials back to ink on paper for a fresh, diaristic exploration of the monochrome.
What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
Dale Harding collaborates for the first time with his mother Kate in Through a Lens of Visitation at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Together they explore their relationship to Country and ponder issues of access.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
Ahead of her solo exhibition at Niagara Galleries, Vongpoothorn contemplates the ideas sprouted during her residency, and how they have transformed once returned to her Canberra studio.
In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape.
