Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

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Flying high at the TarraWarra Biennial

Taking an expanded approach to Indigenous curatorial practice, the ninth TarraWarra Biennial features work responding to themes of regeneration, restoring spirit, and disrupting colonial space. Three artists discuss their contributions.

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A reason for paws

Cats & Dogs, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, explores the ways that the relationships we share with our pets are a source of strangeness and intimacy. But for Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, it’s also an exercise in the power of seeing and being seen.

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Colour mapping

The National Gallery of Australia’s latest Know My Name exhibition presents the work of Australian fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson alongside pieces by Sonia Delauney, tracing the French artist and designer’s influential use of colour and light.

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Another side of the story

A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery takes us deeper into the life of the often-mythologised artist Frida Kahlo, through her personal photographs, clothing and objects, borrowed from Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house museum in Mexico.

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Yona Lee’s object lessons

For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.

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Family matters

An exhibition now showing Adelaide Contemporary Experimental—with the likes of Atong Atem, Jacob Boehme and Marikit Santiago—explores the concept of family through the lens of First Nations and culturally diverse artists.

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William Robinson’s natural instincts

Since 2009, the William Robinson Gallery has held regular exhibitions showcasing the prolific Queensland artist’s oeuvre. The latest is Numinous, focusing on landscape painting and showing the natural world through Robinson’s careful eye.

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Inside Nathan Beard’s Preston studio

Symbols and images dance across Nathan Beard’s vast body of work, all connecting back to his Thai-Australian heritage. We step inside the artist’s studio space in Preston, Victoria, and discuss his upcoming exhibition at Sweet Pea Gallery.

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The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

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Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana and inherited influence

In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.

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The miniature worlds of Kyoko Imazu

In a new exhibition at Australian Galleries, Kyoko Imazu’s intricate papercuts show worlds in miniature—Some of works are only 15 centimetres tall, yet their detail is meticulous.

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