Feature
Bricks and mortar
While many aspects of running a commercial gallery have changed since the 1960s, some things have remained the same. Two stalwarts of Melbourne’s art scene, Bill Nuttall and Stuart Purves, reminisce about the early days.
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Tangle of Memories
Chiharu Shiota returns, interlacing thread to form a phenomenal room-sized installation at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
By Steve Dow
Interview
Finding your place in the world
Tai Snaith takes a look at two pairs of artists who have formed intergenerational, informal mentorships, both sharing the love of humour.
By Tai Snaith
Preview
Sam Field: Have One on Me
Sam Field’s paintings are like colonialist postcards from a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape. His terrains are assembled by combining national logos and images – from vintage Channel Nine logos and football teams, to Blundstone boots and lyrebirds.
By Briony Downes
Review
Tertium Quid
In her solo show Tertium Quid (loosely translated from Latin as ‘the third unknown’) O’Neil presented four large collages assembled from found photographic images.
By Tracey Clement
Feature
NAVA and artists look for a Future/Forward
Art Guide Australia’s Louise Martin-Chew attended the 2018 NAVA Future/Forward forum in Canberra. She reports on efforts to get art back on the political agenda.
By Louise Martin-Chew
News
Winners of the 2018 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects announced
Mona founder David Walsh AO has announced a collaboration between the Melbourne-based Hotham Street Ladies and Pop Architecture as the winner of the 2018 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects.
By Briony Downes
Interview
Sam Smith on geological time and the impact of island landscapes
It’s a big jump from Australia to an island in the Baltic Sea. During 2017 and 2018 the London-based Australian artist Sam Smith visited the Swedish island of Gotland as part of an artist exchange organised by Western Australia’s International Art Space.
By Rebecca Shanahan
Preview
Power + Imagination: Conceptualism 1966–1976
“This was really a period in which art absolutely changed. It was at this time when art didn’t have to be a painting or a sculpture anymore, it could be a movement or a performance or an action or a book.”
By Andrew Stephens
Feature
Podcast: Georgina Cue on reality, fantasy and imagery
In many of Georgina Cue’s photographs, the artist lies in a staged setting. She is surrounded by makeshift objects and structures, which are overloaded with a series of diverging allusions.
By Tiarney Miekus
Preview
Merryn Trevethan: Ruin Nation
“I wanted the cities to become complicated, towering machines floating in toxic soupy skies.”
By Barnaby Smith
News
Gunybi Ganambarr wins Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Ganambarr, who is from the remote community of Gangan in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, took out the top prize with a large etching on aluminium titled Buyku.
