Anna Dunnill is an editor for Art Guide Australia, an artist and a writer based in Naarm (Melbourne). She works with textiles, ceramics and tattoo. Anna is also one half of collaborative duo Snapcat.
Weaving is synonymous with world-making. In numerous cultures, the loom is a metaphor for creation; a person’s life often represented by a spun thread.
The Blade explores the Australian history of lawn from kangaroo grass to the footy field; the scythe to the electric mower; the suburban Hills Hoist to the sweeping verdure of state buildings.
Building on traditional knowledge and aesthetics, John Mawurndjul has established a thoroughly contemporary practice.
A sense of the uncanny echoes through many of the works in Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020.
“How good can we get something to look, that’s got no value, really?” says artist Natalie Thomas. “I use $2 shop paint generally. I just look around at what I’ve got access to and use it, see how good I can get it.”
Anna Louise Richardson’s documentations of rural farm life also function as memento mori: allegories of mortality, of existential dread.
What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts has reopened its doors with Hatched 2020 National Graduate Show.
Through mythology and folklore, Julia Robinson’s sculptures reflect and question our history and present.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Always was, always will be, a ‘pocket exhibition’ on the Art Gallery of New South Wales website, Kolour Me Kweer: a glittering celebration of diversity at Blacktown Arts, a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce and the National Gallery of Victoria’s curator of Indigenous art, new works by Yukultji Napangati at Utopia Arts, and much more.
The First Nations Arts Awards recognise the lifetime achievements and outstanding creative practices of First Nations artists across Australia.
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