The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
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.
Fifteen artists use photography to bring their stories into the light, in a new exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Take a look inside the unveiled designs for the forthcoming National Aboriginal Art Gallery, a gallery exclusively dedicated to First Nations art in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.
The Biennale of Sydney has announced the theme for the 2024 exhibition: Ten Thousand Suns, along with the first 39 participants. The festival is set to run from 9 March to 10 June 2024.
Ingrid Morley has experienced great loss in the last few years, reckoning with bushfires, a studio fire and the death of a very close friend. Her new show at Orange Regional Gallery responds to this period of upheaval.
Congratulations to Shea Kirk, who has won the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize for his portrait Ruby (left view), of friend and fellow-artist Emma Armstrong-Porter.
In Sam Michelle’s exhibition Play at Martin Browne Contemporary, oil paintings of flora, textiles and vessels become metaphors for childhood creativity—a spirit that adulthood often risks losing.
Congratulations to Ida Sophia who has won the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize for her performance-based video work, Witness, which is informed by the South Australian artist’s early childhood experience of watching her father’s baptism.
Four major Sydney venues are currently exhibiting some of the most poignant and compelling works in Australia today. Five exhibiting artists—Amanda Williams, Diena Georgetti, Elizabeth Day, Heather B. Swann and Lynda Draper—tell us about the work they’re showing.
“There’s something very special about looking into where you come from and what surrounds you,” says Sydney artist Bruce Slorach. View, in pictures, Slorach’s latest art centred on the beauty of Australian flora and fauna, as showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Julia Gutman has won the 2023 Archibald Prize for her portrait of singer Montaigne—making Gutman one of the youngest winners in the award’s history, and the 11th woman to win. The Wynne and Sulman winners have also been revealed.
Ahead of the announcement of the 2023 Archibald winner next week, artist Andrea Huelin has won this year’s Packing Room Prize for her portrait of comedian Cal Wilson—and the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes finalists have been revealed.
