Suggested Reading
Hoda Afshar wins the 2025 National Photographic Portrait Prize
In its 18th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates photographic portraiture from emerging and established artists, highlighting what it means to be Australian, through photographs of its people.
Art Guide Australia
The regenerative power of spring
Spring1883, Melbourne’s interactive and immersive fair returns, celebrating the collision of contemporary art installed amongst 18th century decor of The Hotel Windsor.
Anna Carlsson
Let’s Play
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.
Briony Downes
Max Athans and the proxy breath
The central life-giving gesture of the breath is at the core of Max Athans’ first institutional solo exhibition. Their series of sculptures, collectively titled Breathform, take air into latex ‘lungs’ which create a whistle in the exhale, a deep breathy sound that echoes eerily through the galleries.
Louise Martin-Chew
Shelf Portraits: Critical Currents
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
Jane O'Sullivan
Breath work with Arwin Hidayat
Arwin Hidayat’s TERNYATA AKU MASIH BERBAHAS (It Turns Out I’m Still Breathing) at Mitchell Fine Art, presents a lifetime of visual storytelling, experimentation and curiosity.