News
Andrew Browne wins Geelong contemporary art prize
Congratulations to Andrew Browne who has been awarded the $30,000 Geelong contemporary art prize for 2018.
Feature
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art
A rare opportunity begets a rare challenge: extract 130 years of the Museum of Modern Art’s rich collecting in 200 works or less.
By Varia Karipoff
News
New NGV Contemporary will be Australia’s largest contemporary art gallery
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley met at the Arts Centre Melbourne last weekend to announce plans for a major redevelopment of Melbourne’s Southbank arts precinct.
By Briony Downes
Interview
Brisbane’s new Gallery of Children’s Art
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM is a leading academic and early childhood educator. She curated the first exhibition at Brisbane’s new Gallery of Children’s Art (GoCA), Starting Young.
By Louise Martin-Chew
Preview, Review
Brodie Ellis explodes The Crystal World
Brodie Ellis’s video work, A Crystal World, 2016, cuts together footage of Australian mining explosions, sourced online, into a slow motion sequence.
By Anna Dunnill
Preview
Tom Borgas: Barriers IRL
A collection of full-scale concrete barriers, painted in Yves Klein’s trademark blue, rest in an untidy pile on a gallery floor.
By Tiarney Miekus
Preview
Hunter Red spans four galleries in NSW
A unique and unprecedented collaboration between four galleries in the Hunter region, the Hunter Red suite of exhibitions aims to celebrate the Indigenous culture, social diversity, iconoclastic spirit and creative flamboyance of this growing area of NSW.
By Barnaby Smith
News
2018 National Indigenous Arts Awards
This year John Mawurndjul, from Arnhem Land, NT, and Mavis Ngallametta, from the Aurukun community, Qld, both received Red Ochre Awards.
By Art Guide Australia
Preview
Tony Albert: Visible
Albert began as a trainee at the Queensland Art Gallery 17 years ago. His success was propelled by membership of proppaNOW – a Brisbane-based art collective. And he is eager to reciprocate the favour.
By Louise Martin-Chew
Preview
Jane James on Recording Equality
“Art has always served as a record of our cultural lives,” says artist Jane James when explaining the larger ideals behind her work.
By Tiarney Miekus
Preview
John Young
John Young has embraced the potential of technology, even while continuing to paint the old-fashioned way – very carefully.
By Andrew Stephens
Preview
Hayley Megan French: Against the sky
Hayley Megan French paints landscapes that express, via abstraction and minimalism, a connection to place.
