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Matthew Sleeth: A Drone Opera
“Drones have become this metaphor for our fear of technology” – Matthew Sleeth
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Cross cultural exchange becomes sinuous leather furniture in Partu (skin)
Part of the Melbourne Design Week (MDW) 2020 program, Partu is Jansen and Nargoodah’s latest collaboration.
Briony Downes
News
Robert O’Connor wins Glover Prize 2020
Tasmanian artist Robert O’Connor has won the 2020 Glover Prize with a unique take on landscape painting.
Art Guide Australia
Feature
Enduring Beauty
Shell stringing is not only women’s business – it’s a defining, unbroken tradition for Tasmanian Aboriginals.
Briony Downes
News
COVID–19
As of Wednesday 25 March 2020 all galleries and museums Australia-wide will be closed, adhering to COVID-19 restrictions from the federal government. During this time Art Guide Australia will continue to publish and share the art, stories and ideas of artists across the country.
Art Guide Australia
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Navigating home, work, art, life
Outside Painting explores the messy boundaries between life and art.
Anna Dunnill
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Fiona Hall tackles overconsumption with potent rubbish in Afraid Cascade
For Fiona Hall, the things we throw away aren’t empty of meaning.
Neha Kale
Interview
Interview: Brook Andrew on biennales, the art world and new ways of seeing
As artistic director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist Brook Andrew is bringing together over 90 artists, creatives, collectives and communities from Australia and across the globe.
Tiarney Miekus
News
Anthea da Silva wins inaugural Darling Portrait Prize
Anthea da Silva has taken out the inaugural $75,000 prize with her portrait of Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM, founder of the Australian Dance Theatre.
Art Guide Australia
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The darker side of searching for paradise
Fraser Anderson conjures a retreat for our inner gremlins.
Tracey Clement
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Rite of Passage celebrates Indigeneity in 2020 instead of Cook’s arrival
Rite of Passage is an exhibition that has been in gestation for hundreds of years and the majority of curator Shannon Brett’s career.
Louise Martin-Chew
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The Skywhale family shows us what caring means
Patricia Piccinini’s powerfully maternal Skywhale is joined by Skywhalepapa, a gargantuan male counterpart gently embracing a litter of bulbous offspring.
