We are watching more videos on our small screens than ever before, but how much of it is art? In an article originally published by Art Guide in October 2019, Steve Dow spoke to artist Tina Havelock Stevens about being a self-confessed screen addict, and to Lauren Carroll Harris about her initiative Prototype, a curated platform for specially commissioned video art pieces.
Overseas travel is off the agenda for the foreseeable future, but Adam Bushby has fossicked through our state galleries to unearth four renaissance paintings by European masters held closer to home.
First held in 1990 at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, Desert Mob is the oldest of Australia’s thriving annual program of Aboriginal art fairs. With its 30th anniversary coming up in September 2020, Kate Hennessy looks back on Desert Mob 2019.
Melbourne-based artist and author Tai Snaith recently travelled to London as a finalist in the World Illustration Awards. In her postcard from London she delves into the tricky question: What’s the difference between art and illustration?
Public art, loved and hated in equal measure. Canberra-based journalist Sally Pryor examines public sculpture in the nation’s capital. What is its function? One person’s icon may be another’s eyesore. Aesthetics vary, but does public art actually serve another, more important, purpose?
2019 is the international year of Indigenous languages. In recognition, Art Guide asked Anna Kenny to recall the journey she took to translate a more than 100-year-old dictionary written in German and three Aboriginal languages. Now in English, this multilingual dictionary is a powerful tool for preserving and propagating the use of several Indigenous languages in Central Australia.
Long before astronaut Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” artists have been fascinated by the Moon. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, Steve Dow examines the perpetual creative pull of our nearest celestial neighbour.
Tiarney Miekus, host and producer of Art Guide Australia’s podcast, suggests a range of podcasts on art, perfect for those who want to listen as well as look.
The inaugural show in the new custom-designed space for Science Gallery Melbourne, MENTAL: Head Inside, is a young person-led take on mental health featuring more than 20 interdisciplinary projects from around the globe.
In this interview, while preparing for her retrospective show Finders Keepers at Mundaring Arts Centre, the West Australian artist Nalda Searles talks about her four-decade long textiles-based practice, adapting to the changes life throws in your way, channelling her dark humour, and committing to creativity.
Curator Lee Kinsella discusses mining the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for works that embody a kind of transformative material alchemy.
Writer Louise Martin-Chew visited Alair Pambegan at Aurukun in north Queensland, learning first-hand about the artist’s process and connection to Country.
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