Feature
The Hills Have Whys
Unidentified fossils discovered in the Flinders Ranges form the basis of an exhibition by Berlin-based artist, Mariana Castillo Deball.
Review
Civilization: The Way We Live Now
This is not an exhibition to digest quickly or casually…
Nadiah Abdulrahim
Preview
Jack Caddy: Made from pillars of spit
Western Australian artist Jack Caddy’s Made from pillars of spit launches a tragi-comedic critique of what happens when saliva becomes transferable digital information. “How do we navigate this new field where it only takes your third cousin spitting in a tube for someone to identify you?”
Sheridan Hart
Preview
Earwitness Theatre
The first Australian show from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the Beirut-based, British-Lebanese sound artist and self-described ‘audio investigator’, is a complex, politicised interrogation of the possibilities and mysteries of sonic experience.
Barnaby Smith
Preview
Blake Griffiths: Finding Balance
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles which turn the spotlight on the use of textile techniques in contemporary art, Rebecca Shanahan examines the rise of interest in weaving by taking a close look at the work of Broken Hill-based artist Blake Griffiths.
Rebecca Shanahan
Feature
The Births of Venus and Olympia
The photographic works of Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks traverse themes of womanhood, childhood and mortality.
Briony Downes
Preview
Gregory Hodge: Fictions
Gregory Hodge’s illusionary paintings trick the eye into seeing lavish, three-dimensional swirls of paint.
Varia Karipoff
Feature
Performing labour in Alicia Frankovich’s The Work
In The Work, the focus is on the labouring body. How do bodies act and react when they are put to work? What might this reveal about physical strength and limitations, power dynamics and social relations?
Rebecca Gallo
News
Jack Lanagan Dunbar wins 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been awarded the $40,000 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The Sydney-based artist was selected from a field of nine finalists for his body of work titled Pantheon.
Art Guide Australia
News
Jahnne Pasco-White wins Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Art Guide Australia
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Off the Canvas
“Robert Dickerson is quite well loved in Newcastle,” Loretta Morton says. “Visitors will come to the gallery and ask to see Guy, a portrait of his son held in our permanent collection, or a Whiteley, or a Margaret Olley.”
Tracey Clement
News
Rew Hanks wins Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2019
Rew Hanks has won the $16,000 first prize in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with his two-metre-long linocut, Gone Fishing East of Faskrudsfjordur.
