Sally Gearon is assistant editor at Art Guide Australia. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she has a background in art history and book publishing.
Simone Douglas’s artworks can sometimes take months. She creates art that speaks to time and place, as shown in her Artereal Gallery exhibition, which captures her slowly disappearing ice sculpture, Ice Boat.
The intimacy, suffering and art between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is infamous. While the personal reverberates in their paintings, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia places their art not only alongside each other, but within a wider Mexican modernist movement.
View, in pictures, the largest representation of art from First Peoples ever to be assembled, from Emily Kame Kngwarreye to Tommy Watson—now showing at the LUME Melbourne.
How can an individual make themselves truly seen and heard amidst a stratified society? It’s a question asked by 28 contemporary Chinese artists in I Am the People at White Rabbit Gallery.
The Jewish Museum of Australia is exploring the lesser-known areas of Marc Chagall’s prolific and varied career: his printmaking, poetry, publishing, and public art, while also asking contemporary artist Yvette Coppersmith to respond with her own works.
Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s practice spans painting, costume and performance,and he uses local waste and rented equipment to create installations that can be made from scratch at each new location. Having been awarded the 2023 Porter Street Commission, his large-scale participatory sculpture ROCKAMORA is now being shown at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.
Victoria’s flagship festival of music, food, art and culture is back, starting 7 June. With 185 events, here’s our recommendations of what to see—from Cate Blanchett as a tiger in a supermarket to First Nations artists connection to the spirit world.
Rembrandt is arguably one of the most influential and revered artists in history. Now, the NGV is putting on the most comprehensive exhibition of his vast oeuvre in more than 25 years.
Working widely across print mediums, Barbara Hanrahan’s (1939-1991) art explores beauty, domesticity and the afterlife, balancing the ethereal and the everyday. Now, her work is touring throughout South Australia.
With recent cultural reckonings, it’s clear audiences want to see strong women on screen. That is exactly what ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess is delivering, celebrating the defiant disruptors and headstrong heroines of film.
Leisa Shelton has been making performance art for over 30 years, in which she captures viewers’ responses to artists and artworks across the world. Now, five of her major works are showing at Abbotsford Convent.
With young creators showing their final high school art across the country, we spoke to potential artists about everything from climate change to diversity to career viability in the arts. And we learnt that for many, it’s less about art as a career, and more about incorporating creativity into whatever they do.
