The new regional gallery Ngununggula—based in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales—is opening with a show by Tamara Dean, considering the existentialism of the pandemic and recent bushfires. Within anxiety and uncertainty, Dean finds depth and lightheartedness.
As Sydney galleries reopen this week, with Canberra and Melbourne not far behind, Australia’s most prominent museum leaders discuss the impacts and opportunities of the pandemic, and how they’re adapting to our new ‘Covid normal’.
Through her painting and ceramics, Neridah Stockley balances the details of place with a bold distillation of colour and form.
Despite being in ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, Hannah Gartside is still creating, giving attention to the tactility, movement and histories of textiles.
To mark the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Archibald Prize, Art Guide asked 10 Australian artists to each choose a past winner, one from each decade.
Troy-Anthony Baylis uses glomesh and pop music to weave together queerness and Indigeneity.
How have Australia’s commercial galleries been faring through the last two years, and how are they feeling about the future? Mostly, it’s looking quite optimistic.
Jeffrey Smart’s paintings are distinctive. Sparsely populated, some of his near-empty metropolitan scenes have a melancholic, almost cataclysmic, air—like prescient glimpses of cities in lockdown—while others seem infused with an irreverent and sophisticated sense of play.
In this interview, William Robinson, 85-year-old painter of twisted otherworldly landscapes, reveals how he learned to translate both loss and time in his work.
With exhibitions postponed, ceramicist Ruth Ju-Shih Li’s great love of food has filled the space left by clay. Here she tells us the secrets and history of her Mapo Tofu recipe.
Whether snapping her iconic rock’n’roll portraits or intimate family moments, Linda McCartney was a trailblazer.
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