Seeing Country
A group exhibition that seeks to highlight Indigenous knowledge and insights into natural ecologies.
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A group exhibition that seeks to highlight Indigenous knowledge and insights into natural ecologies.
Unearthing relationships between the depictions of Western Australian flora and the state’s Indigenous, colonial and future legacy.
One of the many interesting things about Bugai’s oeuvre is her stylistic diversity. Tight controlled dot-work sits comfortably alongside – and sometimes underneath – loose brushwork.
For those familiar with Bond’s work, themes of eye-watering illusion and the craft of trompe l’oeil are all but unfamiliar.
“Years later I was walking down the street and I was hit by a wave of that pungent smell that explodes out the back of the garbage truck as it compacts the trash. As aromas of dogshit and grass clippings filtered through me I felt incredibly warm and got goosebumps.”
The late Pintupi artist Patrick Tjungurrayi’s paintings offer abstract representations of Country, ceremony, and ancestral and creation stories.
Works by Australian and international artists suggest that doubt and vulnerability, though long perceived as weaknesses, can make room for desire and transformation.
“I am interested in situations where the art historical, psychological, social, and physical worlds collide, and there is a thickness in these situations” – Agatha Gothe-Snape
Lynda Draper has won the fifth biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with her 2019 series Somnambulism.
Justine Youssef has won the $10,000 John Fries Award for her performative video and installation work Under the table I learnt how to feed you, 2019.
Place, specifically Canberra, and a loose adherence to formalism bring together artists Peter Alwast, Rebecca Mayo, and Nigel Lendon in Unfinished Business.
To augment the visual appeal of his paintings, Dale Frank works directly onto glass and Perspex to capture a reflective element canvas does not offer.
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.
In her latest exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Janine Combes uses her background as a jewellery maker to create a body of work inspired by abandoned towns once marked for settlement in Tasmania.
Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.
In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.
