Tiarney Miekus

Editor

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.

Interview

The extremities of Marco Fusinato

For three decades Marco Fusinato has worked across his noise guitar performances, installations, and appropriated musical scores. Interrogating moments of extremity, whether political or musical, Fusinato is now representing Australia in the 2022 Venice Biennale — which you can stream live. Here, he talks about punk, noise and music, and moments of radicalism.

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Shirley Purdie on family and Country

Shirley Purdie’s newest paintings at Olsen Gallery are ancestral stories of Country and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming), but also sites and moments that resonate with Purdie, from her birthplace of Mabel Downs Station to her family history.

Podcast

The Long Run #10: Bonita Ely on art as a catalyst

“I decided that art essentially is a communication, so my basis of my work is conceptual,” says artist Bonita Ely, a pioneer in environmental art in Australia, in this episode of The Long Run, a podcast talking with artists who have 60-year practices.

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“You have to be like a lightning rod” — Kiki Smith talks about being patient in the uncontrollable

Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.

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The ‘must-see’ artworks in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney

Opening this Saturday, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus brings together 89 artists and features 330 works. An ode to rivers and waterways, both salt and fresh, the works are literal and metaphoric, thinking through the relationship of nature to world. This is our round up of what you can’t miss at this year’s Biennale.

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Innuendos to subversion: The stories behind four artworks in QUEER

Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.

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Eight new art spaces to know about

From Melbourne to Sydney to Rockhampton to online, and regional towns in between, we’ve rounded up these eight new art spaces you should know about—whether galleries, artist-run-initiatives or new NFT platforms.

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Polly Borland on photographing the powerful, climate change and looking inward

Intimate, sexualised, playful and primordial: for three decades Borland has used photography as her medium, from photographing Queen Elizabeth to creating her own visual language. Showing at Melbourne Art Fair, Borland tells us where she’s at with life and art.

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Ken Knight’s Frontier

For over four decades Ken Knight has painted en plein air, capturing landscapes in his impressionist style.

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Jenna Lee’s exquisite art deconstructs colonial objects

Black, white and red dominate the art of Jenna Lee, an artist who is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and Karrajarri Saltwater woman with mixed Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and Anglo-Australian ancestry. The artist reflects on five of her recent artworks, with exhibitions at Melbourne Art Fair, Pride Gallery and Koorie Heritage Trust.

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The universality of sharing food

To reflect the migratory flows in the Albury/Wodonga region, SIMMER brings together artists and local Albury residents and chefs to consider how food connects us to culture and each other.

Podcast

The Long Run #9: Margaret Dodd on feminism, cars and identity

Since the 1970s Margaret Dodd’s ceramic holden cars, which are pioneering feminist artworks, have forged pressing questions on femininity, masculinity, sexuality, capitalism and identity.

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Tiarney Miekus

Editor

Tiarney Miekus's Articles

The extremities of Marco Fusinato

Shirley Purdie on family and Country

The Long Run #10: Bonita Ely on art as a catalyst

“You have to be like a lightning rod” — Kiki Smith talks about being patient in the uncontrollable

The ‘must-see’ artworks in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney

Innuendos to subversion: The stories behind four artworks in QUEER

Eight new art spaces to know about

Polly Borland on photographing the powerful, climate change and looking inward

Ken Knight’s Frontier

Jenna Lee’s exquisite art deconstructs colonial objects

The universality of sharing food

The Long Run #9: Margaret Dodd on feminism, cars and identity

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