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.
A new retrospective exhibition, David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence at RMIT Design Hub, aims to bring attention to empathic observations by ‘looking at the act of looking’.
Synthetic at the Australian Centre for Photography considers how the photographic image can provide a space between our known past and speculative futures.
Future Eaters at Monash University Museum of Art considers not only what it means to make sculpture in our current digital age, but how sculpture connects to technology and the future.
Featuring more than 60 artists across 25 galleries and museums, the one-night-only event aims to forge new contexts, relationships and experiences for artists and audiences.
In the tales of popular culture, if a character encounters an interactive robot the occasion generally brings about one of two reactions: it’s either a wondrous, life-affirming moment, or it evokes total existential terror.
Congratulations to Indigenous artist Peter Mungkuri who has won the inaugural Hadley’s Art Prize.
The century-old Castlemaine Art Museum (CAM) will be closing its doors this August due to ongoing financial pressures, falling revenue and rising maintenance costs.
Viewing Robert Boynes’s paintings from the last five decades is like watching the joys and plagues of Western culture appear before our very eyes. Among the artist’s many engagements, there are concerns with technology, pleasure, modernism, urban alienation, imperialism, capitalism and the environment.
It’s quite strange that the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 is also the year of greatest unemployment in Australian history.
In recognition of the important links between Filipino cultural practices and Australia, Mosman Art Gallery is currently showing Halò: an exploration of imperialism, beauty pageants, migration and uncertainty.
Arrente artist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello combines the traditional Aboriginal practice of weaving with the European practice of glass making.
Congratulations to Chris Bond who has won the very first BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award (BMCAA).
