Through her poetically constructed images, Hoda Afshar illuminates a world overshadowed by history and atrocity. Yet we never see despair: we see defiance, comradeship, reinvention and a search for how photography can activate new ways of thinking.
Hiromi Tango is creating aesthetic pathways through trauma and illness, particularly long Covid, using her signature rainbow palette to centre gentleness, compassion and hope at Brisbane Festival.
Artist and poet Chunxiao Qu bends common language into absurd, funny and meaningful forms that are as forthright as the glow of her neon lights—as seen in her latest show at FUTURES Gallery.
Celebrating artist collectives through seven exhibitions across Melbourne and Kyneton, the new Collective Polyphony Festival is founded on the notion of artists supporting artists.
One of Australia’s biggest art fairs is back at Carriageworks, with over 96 booths and 500 artists. Our Art Guide editors have curated their top picks at Sydney Contemporary, spanning intimate still life paintings, cats draped over shoulders and emerging artists.
Spanning over 30 art centres, 1,221 million square kilometres, and 16 languages, Desert Mob is a joyful gathering that celebrates community and Country, from food to fashion to sovereignty.
Moving to New York in 1969, Virginia Cuppaidge is known for her internationally revered abstract paintings. She’s now living in Australia, unveiling a carefully restored, utterly luminous, six-metre work at this week’s Sydney Contemporary.
From kewpie dolls used in the 2000 Sydney Olympics to a satirical bust from the 16th century, the Powerhouse Museum curatorium pick four of their favourites in the current show, 1001 Remarkable Objects.
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the animals we are familiar with in Australia.
A 1975 Mazda ute is embarking on a 3,200-kilometre trek from Kununurra, in the Kimberley, to Perth’s WA Museum Boola Bardip. Painted by Warmun artists, and transformed into a sound sculpture, what’s the story behind this car?
Dance and choreography are experiencing a vital and widespread renaissance in contemporary art—but what’s the link and history between these two worlds, and how do they entwine in Australian arts today?
Spring1883 is back at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, with everything from sculptures of hot chips with wilted roses to Taylor Swift getting “cancelled”. At this boutique art fair, installation is everything—and the Art Guide editors have selected their top picks.
