Insiders
Preppers
Tracey Clement recommends Preppers at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of art insiders share their thoughts on what to see this month.
Feature
Shirin Neshat: Dreamers
It’s interesting to note that at a time when Western relations with Iran are once again becoming markedly, worryingly strained, Neshat appears to be heading in a broader direction in her work, away from the politically charged direction of her past.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
Preview
The shore, the race, the other place
In paintings like Our Rocky Shore, 2019, Neil Haddon blends the soft textures of clouds with contrasting colours, creating a surface crackling with orange hues and the veined branches of trees.
Briony Downes
Review
Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth
PICA curator Charlotte Hickson and Taiwanese-born guest curator Ashley Yihsin Chang have assembled four artists from each city (Perth and Taipei) for Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth.
Sheridan Hart
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Artist run initiatives take over Hobart in Hobiennale
Spearheaded in 2017 by Tasmanian ARI (artist run initiative) Constance, Hobiennale is a week-long arts festival uniting ARIs from across Australia and New Zealand via free exhibitions, projects and artists’ talks.
Briony Downes
News
Liam Nunan wins The Lester Prize 2019
Sydney-based actor and artist Liam Nunan is the winner of the $50,000 Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019, for his portrait of fellow actor Jonny Hawkins.
Art Guide Australia
Preview
Companions
Anna-Wili Highfield’s art career began outside the gallery system…
Zara Sigglekow
Feature
Ben Quilty: Bard of Compassion
Quilty aligns with a reflective period for the artist, as he considers how to pass on what he has learned to his children.
Sheridan Hart
Preview
A little bit of our Syria
Rose Richani’s intimate recollections of her Syrian homeland reveal the complex reality of living between two cultures.
Michaela Bear
Feature
Japan Supernatural
Once popular, then shunned in favour of sobering modernity, yokai – the catchall term for Japan’s ghosts, demons and mythical creatures – are back.
Briony Downes
News
2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize won by what
The artist known simply as what has won the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for 2019 with his portrait of Robert Forster from the Australian rock group The Go-Betweens.
Art Guide Australia
Preview
WATERLICHT shines a light on rising waters during the Fremantle Biennale
WATERLICHT, an immersive installation by Dutch art and design firm Studio Roosegaarde, will make its Southern Hemisphere debut at Fremantle Biennale this November.
