Contributor Tiarney Miekus is an editor at Art Guide Australia and a Melbourne-based writer whose work has also appeared in The Age, The Australian, un Magazine, Meanjin, RealTime, Overland and The Lifted Brow (Online). She is the producer of the Art Guide Australia podcast.
The two-person art collective position TERROR NULLIUS as an unwieldy road movie, using acts of sampling and appropriation to tour through, while also challenging, white Australian cinema and history.
Kenny Pittock’s work seems relatable and commands us to look at the minutiae of every life. In the latest episode of our conversation series he talks about the organic use of humour in his work, while also touching upon his upcoming drawing residency at Deakin University Art Gallery.
Dark Imaginings: Gothic Tales of Wonder spans rare books and music, and further includes prints by Henry Fuseli, Salvator Rosa, G.B. Piranesi, Francisco Goya and Charles Méryon.
If you ask Dana Lawrie about the title of her latest show Grasp The Nettle, the artist replies, “It’s about approaching something unpleasant, but approaching in a way that’s brave. It’s about doing something as a way of accepting a certain thing, or learning more about it.”
The work of artist Fayen d’Evie prompts us to consider how we encounter, describe, understand and create art.
UK artist Amy Sharrocks describes the Museum of Water as “A mosaic of the universe that cherishes voices and careful listening.”
In Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art you will find: a lightbox representing the entire universe; a dark room of floating figures; and the slowed-down breaking of a single wave, mapping the step-by-step shift as the water eventually crashes.
Jon Campbell’s practice is characterised by an avid interest in Australian vernacular, local and national iconography, popular cultural, colloquial sayings, graphic design tropes, vivid colours and negative space.
Showing at PS Art Space, the exhibition is the second instalment of the duo’s three-part Migratory Projects, which, as the name suggests, broadly deals with the aesthetic representation and experience of migration.
Exhibiting painting and sculpture by contemporary Australian artists, Unreal City includes works by Tarik Ahlip, Bonita Bub, Mitch Cairns, Lewis Fidock, Thomas Jeppe, Anna Kristensen, Sanne Mestrom and Joshua Petherick.
John A Douglas has created an imaginative correspondence between Dante’s journey through hell and Douglas’ own chronic illness and transplant experience.
By conflating the political, psychological and biological, O’Callaghan anchors the human body as a site to investigate protest and resistance.
