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 2022 Biennale of Sydney is tipped to focus on sustainability and collaboration, with Colombian curator José Roca leading the way.
Piccinini places human and non-human creatures in relationships that are as loving and empathic as they are unnerving.
Porcelain, fur, paraffin wax, silk, resin, glass, bones, fox and rabbit pelt, Tibetan gazelle horns: these are just some of the materials Juz Kitson uses to create her highly tactile, creature-like sculptural forms.
Lauded by almost everyone, the Biennale has been called “confrontational” and “consequential,” often followed by the fact that it’s the first time the event has been curated by an Indigenous director; artist Brook Andrew.
Lightning bolts, smiley faces, Buddhism and rock’n’roll: Nell draws on a catalogue of symbols to conjure the moments where language fails.
How do you think about the future at a time when the future feels so uncertain? In this third edition of Faraway, so close, artists Cyrus Tang and Lucy McRae give their thoughts and feelings on where we are now, and where we’re headed next.
Eugenia Lim’s major exhibition The Ambassador is currently touring Australia, and brings together works featuring her invented persona, also called the ambassador, who she inhabits across multiple videos, performances and sites.
From alleviating anxiety to getting fit at home, our current moment has been a time of seeking wisdom. The advice from artists at Cement Fondu? Don’t let yourself go.
Although only active for four years, the Brio are currently showing at Artspace and Cockatoo Island for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN.
In this second edition of Faraway, so close—a podcast dedicated to considering the anxieties and opportunities emerging in the arts in our new COVID-19 world—we’re considering what parenting and creating looks like during isolation with artists Tai Snaith and Ross Coulter.
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Tiarney Miekus recommends online art highlights including the Shirley Purdie at the National Portrait Gallery online, KINGS ARI artist updates from lockdown, Xanthe Dobbie’s online exhibition Desktop Holiday at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery website, Firstdraft moves an exhibition into Animal Crossing a life simulation game, and much more.
The Body Electric explores the depth of what it means to have a material body capable of intimacy, sex and desire.
