The Indigenous artist took out the annual $100,000 prize for landscape painting with his densely layered canvas titled Four Dreamings.
“I am most interested in working collaboratively and closely with artists to develop their ideas and to give them a platform to experiment and create new works or new experiences through their work.” – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Curator Anna Davis.
Delving into the archives at State Library of Victoria, Höflich will research magical practices as ways of measuring and predicting, in response to a culture shaped by digital algorithms.
Colour is simultaneously the most apparent and most complex part of Gemma Smith’s practice. The artist, who has a penchant for abstraction, creates paintings that capture dialogues and interactions between colours.
First-time curator Andrew Atchison focuses an inquiry into queer abstraction, challenging how we comprehend and view queer art.
Steve Dow looks at a number of artists who see VR as loaded with both hope and fear.
Floyd translates politics and philosophy through a cast of anthropomorphic sculptures.
The influence of music, particularly classical, jazz and instrumental music, flows through Bakker’s solo show Resonant Forms.
Sydney University has launched a portal about the remote Ngaanyatjarra world, created in consultation with the community, its contents approved by elders.
JamFactory curator Caitlin Eyre explores the Barossa region’s long-standing connection to Germany in Kinder, Küche, Kirche: Revisiting the Traditions of Barossan Women’s Folk Crafts.
Al Munro’s latest exhibition experiments with translating the content of paintings back into textiles.
The Housing Question—an expansive show by artists Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys—examines the multiple public and private dimensions of housing.
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.
un Magazine was conceived to champion courageous art criticism in an art world too often shaped by power and influence, a mission that still endures two decades on.
A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.
Whether looking for the perfect Christmas gift or searching for a summer read, we have selected some of our favourite art books of 2024—spanning everything from comprehensive gallery monographs to notable exhibition catalogues and self-published artist books.
