The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
The winners of the 2022 Victorian Craft Awards have been announced, with Blanche Tilden winning ‘The Lynne Kosky Award for Contemporary Jewellery’, alongside another five award categories recognising craft in its many forms—and there’s a stunning finalist exhibition on display at Craft Victoria.
‘The Picasso Century’ blockbuster will be opening at the National Gallery of Victoria in June, capturing Pablo Picasso’s extraordinary career, alongside dialogues with the many artists, poets and intellectuals he interacted with, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí and Gertrude Stein.
As flood waters devastate south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, a number of galleries, museums and cultural hubs are currently closed. Our thoughts are with those affected. We’ll keep a rolling update of closures online, alongside ways those affected can be supported at this time.
Despite being in ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, Hannah Gartside is still creating, giving attention to the tactility, movement and histories of textiles.
In her Smartphone Snaps photo essay, Blue Mountains-based artist Vicky Browne makes the most of her home studio and furry menagerie, while missing exhibiting.
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer keeps busy both painting and walking.
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, photographer William Broadhurst focuses on how his camera keeps him connected to his suburban neighbourhood.
In her Smartphone Snaps photo essay, Karen Back offers an intimate glimpse of her locked-down life and the local colour that keeps her smiling.
In our latest Smartphone Snaps photo essay, James Powditch turns his pandemic-fuelled anger into art, and walks us through his daily lockdown routine.
In our ongoing Smartphone Snaps series, artists invite us into their locked-down lives. Here, Kuba Dorabialski takes us on a trip to wildly different destinations, from Bulgaria and Uzbekistan to his own backyard.
Joel B. Pratley has won the 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) for his evocative photograph Drought story, capturing a lone farmer walking through the reddened haze of a dust storm, in drought-stricken Australia.
In our latest Smartphone Snaps feature, painter Eleanor Louise Butt offers an intimate glimpse of her home and studio in the Dandenong Ranges during Victoria’s fifth lockdown.
