Suggested Reading
Creativity beyond mortality
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Shadow and light
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Rosamund Brennan
Sammy Hawker’s acts of co-creation
Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.
Camilla Wagstaff
Sabsabi and Dagostino recommissioned by Creative Australia to represent Australia at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026
Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino have been recommissioned by Creative Australia as the Artistic Team for the Australia Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Art Guide Australia
The 25th Biennale of Sydney announces theme and the first 37 artists and collectives
Curated by artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi, the program is centred by the theme of Rememory. Originating from author Toni Morrison, the ideas seek to explore the intersection of memory and history—revisiting, reconstructing and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed.
Art Guide Australia
Remy Faint explores material culture in his garage-studio
Step inside Remy Faint’s inner-city Sydney garage, where he meticulously constructs every element of his artworks—from wooden frames and sculpted fabric to striking, multilayered paintings in silk. Faint is now showing at the Rockhampton Museum of Art.