The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
“For the Balinese, the seen and the unseen are inseparable, a belief strongly intertwined in their way of life.” A new exhibition at Footscray Community Arts asks five contemporary Balinese artists to bring a modern perspective to traditional practices—see the exquisite results in pictures.
Through evocative tableau photographs, Yuki Kihara, a Pasifika and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s ‘third gender’) artist from Aotearoa, is dismantling gender roles and ‘returning the gaze’ to Pacific Islanders.
Melbourne Now has arrived. Featuring over 200 Victorian artists, it’s a staggering, landmark celebration of local art at NGV Australia. Ahead of the show’s opening, we asked five artists to talk through their exhibiting work.
The 2023 Glover Prize has been announced, with Tasmanian-based artist Joanna Chew taking home the $75,000 prize for her painting Tender.
Congratulations to Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins, who has won the 2023 La Prairie Art Award for a series of poignant portraits representing three generations of her family members.
For hundreds of years, artists have captured—and even been obsessed with—faces. Spanning over a century and more than 50 artists, 100 Faces at Monash Gallery of Art reveals the diversity of photographic portraiture.
Andy Butler, Lisa Hilli and James Nguyen each engage the power dynamics that shape public culture. Their works are informed by personal histories of migration from Southeast Asia, and they have a mutual crossover of experience—being one generation away from the village, they now navigate spaces founded on exclusion and prestige. They speak to this in their incredibly insightful three-way conversation.
Artist-run and experimental spaces are central to Australian art. While scores of such spaces exist throughout Australian art history, we asked five artists—Bonita Ely, David Chesworth, Diego Ramirez, Kenny Pittock and Michael Lindeman—to tell us about their early works in experimental spaces, and how these formative experiences became pivotal to their practices.
Summer 2023-2024 will see three major, pioneering artists showing across the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Congratulations to Graeme Drendel, who has won the 2022 Doug Moran Portrait Prize for his painting of fellow artist Lewis Miller, in Australia’s richest portrait prize.
The ground-breaking and historic Melbourne Fringe Festival is being celebrated in a major exhibition at the State Library of Victoria. The show reflects on 40 years of Fringe while also looking 40 years ahead.
