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 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship turns 20 this year and Steve Dow took this opportunity to talk to three recipients, Tom Polo, Mitch Cairns and Sally Anderson, about travelling to Paris and the impact of the scholarship on their painting practices.
Musician and performance artist Rainbow Chan sends a postcard from Beijing where she spent a month in the Chinese autumn of 2018 as one of four Australian artists selected by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Want to collect contemporary art, but not sure how to start? In the immortal words of JK Rowling, “When in doubt, go to the library.” Zara Sigglekow sums up what four books on art collecting have to offer, from personal stories to financial advice.
On 22 October, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a large painting by Australian artist Peter Daverington in the Great Hall of Canberra’s Parliament House. The work was commissioned to commemorate those who have survived institutional child abuse in Australia. Steve Dow spoke to Daverington about the challenges of the commission, the role of art in making sure we don’t forget the past, his success as a New York based mural painter, and his ongoing rebellious nature.
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
Now in its third iteration, The National 2021 is about care, hope, storytelling, and triumph through adversity.
From towering freeway sculpture to tiny glass-encased dioramas, Louise Paramor’s distinctive assemblages evoke both familiarity and wonder.
MIRKA, a new show at the Jewish Museum of Australia, allows audiences to hear Mirka Mora’s voice and see the artist’s work through the lens of her rich Jewish cultural heritage.
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