The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
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.
One of Australia’s most regarded living artists with a 60-year practice, Elisabeth Cummings creates captivating paintings that move in and out of abstract interiors, landscapes and still life. View, in pictures, Cummings’s enthralling new work at King Street Gallery on William.
Celebrating the art and design of the local Victorian community with over 200 artists and makers, Melbourne/Naarm NOW is returning to the The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, following its triumphant 2013 iteration.
Kendal Murray’s miniature sculptures are a fascinating combination of materials including repurposed domestic objects ranging from crockery and compact mirrors to children’s toys. For Murray, these items become the foundation for her to create new worlds. Murray’s captivating and inventive works are now showing at Flinders Lane Gallery.
In late 2021 Melbourne artist Damiano Bertoli died unexpectedly. He was 52. An artist who worked across many forms, Bertoli was deeply embedded in the Melbourne arts community. For Bertoli’s retrospective at Neon Parc, we asked artists Darcey Bella Arnold and Yanni Florence, writer Amelia Winata, and Neon Parc director Geoff Newton, to each reflect on one of Bertoli’s works.
There’s a meditative, otherworldly quality to Rae Begley’s photographs, which are moving for their depiction of diverse, geological landscapes. View, in pictures, Begley’s On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing now showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Emu Sky invites audiences to reflect on the importance of respecting, resourcing and valuing Indigenous knowledge of Country. This vast exhibition, held at Melbourne University’s Old Quad, showcases work from more than 30 Aboriginal community members across south-eastern Australia. Learn the stories behind four featured artworks.
Congratulations to Margaret Rarru Garrawurra for winning the 2022 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). Her award-winning work powerfully references her cultural identity and the long-lasting relationships between Yolŋu people and the people of Indonesia—and it’s exhibiting in Darwin alongside other NATSIAA winners and finalists.
Iluwanti Ken and Betty Muffler are both celebrated senior Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artists and Ngangkari (traditional healers) for community and Country. Together, they join forces for a significant and powerful exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery. View, in pictures, Ken and Muffler’s evocative and illuminating works.
Looking at Chiharu Shiota’s art paradoxically offers an uncanny awareness of one’s bodily existence alongside the elusiveness of time. To see Shiota’s latest installation and works at Anna Schwartz Gallery is to be awe-struck.
Traversing sculpture, painting and sound Afterburner reveals Michelle Ussher’s quest to represent and challenge understandings of femininity—particularly the shapes, expressions and actions that are associated with feminine artistic expression. View, in pictures, Ussher’s vibrant and evocative works at STATION gallery (Sydney).
Many artists are charged with changing the course of art—for Pablo Picasso, it’s almost an understatement. Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s The Picasso Century we asked five artists—Eleanor Louise Butt, Yvette Coppersmith, Euan Heng, Wendy Sharpe, and John Wolseley—to each reflect on one Picasso painting in the exhibition.
