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.
From posters to fanzines to personal letters, Unpopular at Powerhouse Museum is a homage to global 1990s bands like Nirvana, Pavement, Fugazi, Rancid, The Amps and Sonic Youth, delving into the archives of veteran music entrepreneur Stephen Pavlovic.
Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian South Sea Islander artist. Her great-great-grandparents were taken from Vanuatu as children during the Pacific slave trade and made to work in Australia. Togo-Brisby explores this dark history, talking through its ramifications—and how it informs her practice, with works showing at Fremantle Arts Centre.
“She hasn’t gone to art school or locked herself into a style. She has used painting, drawing, ceramics and even performance to explore different ideas relating to her engagement with the world.” Robyn Bischoff’s latest abstract works are showing at Bunbury Regional Gallery.
It’s finally been launched. A new cultural policy for Australia. After years (actually decades) of neglect, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese launched a new national cultural policy, Revive.
From climate change to the simple respite of a frosty ice cream on a boiling summer day, Swelter at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery shows how artists filter this country’s extreme heat.
The art of storytelling has been integral to Chinese culture and history for thousands of years—and White Rabbit Gallery is exploring how contemporary artists are keeping this timeless practice alive, especially in today’s digital age.
“And I definitely think that’s what landscape is for me, it is a questioning about living and life and what we do in places and what we leave behind,” says Polly Stanton in our latest podcast, talking about how her art practice looks at the entwined relationship between culture and nature.
Gail Mabo’s latest, poignant exhibition tells the story of her mother and father, Dr Bonita Mabo and land rights activist Eddie Mabo, alongside recollections of childhood.
Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins creates evocative portraits and landscape paintings exploring being a First Nations person in contemporary Australia. Her latest work Stockwoman is gracing the walls of Carriageworks for Sydney Festival, capturing her great-grandmother Hetty Perkins.
Niloufar Lovegrove’s beguiling prints at Artspace Mackay show a deft fusion of cultures that not only allows profound new perspectives on environmental crises, but is also a self-exploration.
From her feminist prints and posters of the 1970s to her later landscape paintings, Mandy Martin’s (1952-2021) retrospective at Geelong Gallery shows her long-term fight for the Australian environment.
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.
In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.
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.
Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.
