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Assembling difference with Lorraine Connelly-Northey and Rosalie Gascoigne
Lorraine Connelly-Northey’s tough barbed wire sculpture meets the rhythmic assemblage of Rosalie Gascoigne.
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The story behind the Karrabing Film Collective
Based in the Northern Territory but internationally renowned, the Karrabing Film Collective look at equality issues such as poverty, incarceration and mining on Country, while also weaving traditional stories connected with Country. Now, Karrabing’s films are showing at Samstag Museum of Art.
Andrew Stephens
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Doug Aitken on synthetic realities and if art can change minds
“I think we’re going to see a revolution in what creativity and culture can be,” says American multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken ahead of his first Australian survey show, New Era.
Steve Dow
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Tamara Dean’s new show, in a new gallery: High Jinks in the Hydrangeas
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.
Tracey Clement
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Major museum leaders talk ‘Covid normal’
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’.
Kelly Gellatly
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Neridah Stockley’s deconstructed landscape
Through her painting and ceramics, Neridah Stockley balances the details of place with a bold distillation of colour and form.
Andrew Stephens
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Smartphone Snaps: Hannah Gartside
Despite being in ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, Hannah Gartside is still creating, giving attention to the tactility, movement and histories of textiles.
Art Guide Australia
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10 artists choose 10 past winners as the Archibald Prize turns 100
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.
Tracey Clement
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Troy-Anthony Baylis’ musical theatre
Troy-Anthony Baylis uses glomesh and pop music to weave together queerness and Indigeneity.
Steve Dow
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How are our galleries faring?
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.
Kelly Gellatly
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Jeffrey Smart’s Metropolitan Visions
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.
Tracey Clement
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William Robinson on painting beyond perspective and into the fourth dimension
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.