Feature
Patterns of Adaptation
Suspended in an uncertain ‘new normal’, artists continue to find ways to work.
Preview
Social fibre, moral fibre and textile fibres
As a survey of textile artwork FIBRE presents a profusion of different themes, diving into process, tradition and community.
Sheridan Hart
Preview
Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs
Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs in September 2020.
Tracey Clement
Preview
Words of wisdom in Oracle
Oracle, Brigita Ozolins hopes, may point to a potential future of positive change.
Tracey Clement
Feature
Love in the Time of Covid-19
Inspired by being in lockdown, South Australian gallerist Paul Greenaway initiated an international online project. Sheridan Hart spoke to him, and two of the artists involved, about using art to cross borders and bring comfort.
Sheridan Hart
Feature
Ben Quilty: 2020 vision
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles in which we turn the spotlight on a single artwork, Tracey Clement takes a close look at Ben Quilty’s recent painting, 2020, and talks to the artist about how he sees the world.
Tracey Clement
Feature
Patricia Piccinini on re-thinking beauty and nature
Piccinini places human and non-human creatures in relationships that are as loving and empathic as they are unnerving.
Tiarney Miekus
Preview
The cultural legacy of Billy Missi
Billy Missi believed in the power of art to make change.
Rebecca Gallo
Preview
Obsessed: Compelled to Make
What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
Anna Dunnill
Interview
Juz Kitson on the beauty and ugliness of life
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.
Tiarney Miekus
Feature
Smartphone snaps: Teelah George’s home and studio
Working with textiles and bronze, Teelah George uses her smartphone to capture her new life in Melbourne.
Art Guide Australia
Feature
Smartphone snaps: Lawrence English’s take on Brisbane life
Through the stark aesthetic of his smartphone images, Lawrence English provides a striking take on life during lockdown.
