Tiarney Miekus is an editor at Art Guide Australia and a Melbourne-based writer whose work has also appeared in un Magazine, The Australian, Meanjin (Online), RealTime, Overland and The Lifted Brow (Online). She is the producer of the Art Guide Australia podcast.
With a practice spanning three decades, Louise Weaver is well-known for her meticulously crochet-encased animal forms.
The compassionate, connective relationship one can potentially have with one’s self, as well as with others, is the fertile grounding of Kate Mitchell’s large-scale installation All Auras Touch.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
An exhibition titled Animal Nation may, on the surface, presuppose a simply figurative display of animal life.
Despite being a multidisciplinary artist, Griggs is primarily known for his vivid and chaotic portraits.
Milan Milojevic threads wild landscapes with the richness of altered fauna, flora and mythological creatures. His newest exhibition converges on one visual motif: the waterfall.
For David Hurlston curating is both a conceptual and physical process: he’s concerned with how viewers move through gallery spaces and how they read artworks. “It’s just about making a really tangible and interesting and educative experience, and I think that happens in the real world, in the real space,” he says.
Along with being an independent curator, Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer and artist who continuously looks at the dynamics of power, systemic racism and racial hierarchies within a contemporary art context.
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
The winner of the 2019 Telstra Art Award is Djambawa Marawili AM with his work Journey to America.
“Each curator is unique like every artist is unique, I believe,” says Nici Cumpston, a leader in the Australian arts who holds the dual positions of Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Artistic Director of the annual TARNANTHI festival.
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