What’s disguised in the name ‘coolie’?
Sancintya Mohini Simpson unpacks a family history of indentured labour.
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Sancintya Mohini Simpson unpacks a family history of indentured labour.
“As an Armenian, the concept of exile and genocide is not unfamiliar.”
Through a classical Filipino dance form featuring long metal fingernails, artist Bhenji Ra explores the passing down of cultural knowledge.
The award acknowledges Andrew’s “outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian visual art.”
Industrial design meets straw marquetry via the age-old game of ‘exquisite corpse’.
“Drones have become this metaphor for our fear of technology” – Matthew Sleeth
Part of the Melbourne Design Week (MDW) 2020 program, Partu is Jansen and Nargoodah’s latest collaboration.
Tasmanian artist Robert O’Connor has won the 2020 Glover Prize with a unique take on landscape painting.
Shell stringing is not only women’s business – it’s a defining, unbroken tradition for Tasmanian Aboriginals.
As of Wednesday 25 March 2020 all galleries and museums Australia-wide will be closed, adhering to COVID-19 restrictions from the federal government. During this time Art Guide Australia will continue to publish and share the art, stories and ideas of artists across the country.
Outside Painting explores the messy boundaries between life and art.
For Fiona Hall, the things we throw away aren’t empty of meaning.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
Gabriela Burkhalter’s The Playground Project at Incinerator Gallery reinvents the typically serious installation space, inviting children to play, reminding us of its importance within the arts.
A survey exhibition spanning the 30-year practice of Jennifer Mills brings together bodies of works grounded in precision and tenderness at Bunjil Place Gallery.
Offering a “new kind of hope,” Jacobus Capone’s solo show, End & Being, is the inaugural exhibition at the National Centre for Environmental Arts in Halls Gap.
