Feature
Peter Powditch
Peter Powditch is not one to do things by halves; now several shows pay dues to the mark he’s left on Australia’s psyche.
Preview
Melinda Schawel: Higher Ground II
Melinda Schawel’s work is ambiguous in interpretation. On the one hand, her drifting images bring to mind the trajectory of stars, geography, mapping; on the other hand, a macro view of some organism, or even molecular structures.
By Anna Dunnill
Interview
Julie Rrap responds to Max Dupain’s Sunbaker
Steve Dow spoke to Julie Rrap as she was preparing for the show, Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker.
By Steve Dow
Preview
Passages
The most recent recipient of the Contemporary Art Tasmania’s Curatorial Mentorship Program, Emily Bullock, has curated Passages, a mixed media exhibition that includes six artists from the UK and Australia whose works map the experiences, both subjective and sensory, that connect us to people and places.
By Briony Downes
News
Tomislav Nikolic wins the 2017 Bulgari Art Award
Melbourne-based artist Tomislav Nikolic has won the $80,000 2017 Bulgari Art Award.
By Art Guide Australia
Feature
Across Borders
Melbourne is the next destination for the immersive work EXIT that visually maps the intricacies of globalisation.
By Briony Downes
Feature
Elvis Richardson
Elvis Richardson is known as a feminist artist and activist. But when she met writer Anna Dunnill they discovered that they both also have a passion for crime, or at least detective stories.
By Anna Dunnill
Preview
Van Gogh and the Seasons
This exhibition sees Van Gogh’s struggle with questions of life. The seasons are allegorical – reaping and sowing, represent growth in life and death in harvest. In particular, wheat fields, olive and cypress trees were frequent subjects that allude to this cycle.
By Varia Karipoff
Preview
Celebrating the Centenary of Sidney Nolan’s Birth
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sidney Nolan’s birth, the National Gallery of Victoria are currently displaying Nolan’s Wimmera paintings.
By Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Fourteen ARIs join forces in All Conference
In a show of collective solidarity, 14 artist-led and cross-disciplinary organisations around Australia have gotten together to form All Conference, a platform that aims to support and articulate the value of artist-run and experimental organisations.
By Tiarney Miekus
Preview
Darren Sylvester
“Perhaps a common theme throughout is that brands change, people change and everything dies,” says Melbourne artist Darren Sylvester of the works in his solo exhibition at Neon Parc.
By Amelia Winata
Preview, Review
Fiona Hall
Timing is everything. Viewed in April Fiona Hall’s solo show, Gateless Gate, reads like a meditation on the senselessness of war: the perfect antidote to the beer-soaked, jingoistic, flag-waving frenzy that often seems to accompany the more sombre rituals of ANZAC day.
