She Persists is both a hardcopy book and an online hub of 34 essays (and podcasts). Together they examine the important role of women in art and design by taking a closer look at works in the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection.
Mel O’Callaghan’s solo show, Centre of the Centre, at UQ Art Museum has closed to the public in the wake of COVID-19. But the monograph which was published to mark the occasion remains accessible, and Art Guide is pleased to present Edward Scheer’s contribution in full.
In late 2019, nearly a dozen writers participated in an intensive ACCA/RMIT partnership program in which they were encouraged to respond to the ACCA exhibition On Vulnerability and Doubt in unconventional ways.
More than a century after he was born, Colin McCahon (1919-1987) remains a key figure in New Zealand painting. Fellow New Zealander Justin Paton marked the centenary of McCahon’s birth with a new monograph on the artist’s work, McCahon Country. In the extract below, from the chapter titled ‘Land,’ Paton explores the painter’s connection to place in his early work from the 1940s.
In the biography Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography Helen Ennis traces the modernist photographer’s history – from a childhood spent in Sydney’s northern suburbs, through her years with fellow photographer Max Dupain, to her renewed fame in later years.
This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrates the 40th anniversary of its building with both an exhibition, Perth Brutal: Dreaming in Concrete, and a publication, AGWA 1979, A Brutalist Gallery in Perth: The development of the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s iconic building, edited by Robert Cook and Melissa Harpley.
The Bauhaus, a German design school founded in 1919, was both short-lived and highly influential. In the year of its centenary, Philip Goad, Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist, and Isabel Wünsche trace the legacy of the Bauhaus in their book, Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture.
Every year the SALA festival offers an in-depth look at the practice of a living South Australian artist through a monograph on their work. This year sculptor Louise Haselton finds herself in the spotlight in both the book and a solo show at the Samstag Museum.
In Visualising Human Rights editor Jane Lydon presents a collection of essays that explore the role of visual imagery in defining and contesting human rights within an Australian context.
For more than a decade, artist run initiative MOP Projects was a well-known fixture in the Sydney art scene. It closed in 2016, but the images and essays in the book MOP Projects: 2003–2016 preserve the legacy of this influential gallery. In ‘M4 to MOP,’ reproduced with permission below, writer Ann Finegan traces the links between the artists of western Sydney and the inner city ARI.
Writing in the Expanded Field is a digital publication featuring contributions by 14 emerging writers who participated in a workshop of the same name, held at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in conjunction with their 2018 exhibition, Eva Rothschild: Kosmos.
In Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis and Catherine Speck trace the history and impact of Australian art exhibitions, from the mid 20th century to the present day.
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.
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.
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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