Celebrating artist collectives through seven exhibitions across Melbourne and Kyneton, the new Collective Polyphony Festival is founded on the notion of artists supporting artists.
One of Australia’s biggest art fairs is back at Carriageworks, with over 96 booths and 500 artists. Our Art Guide editors have curated their top picks at Sydney Contemporary, spanning intimate still life paintings, cats draped over shoulders and emerging artists.
Spanning over 30 art centres, 1,221 million square kilometres, and 16 languages, Desert Mob is a joyful gathering that celebrates community and Country, from food to fashion to sovereignty.
Moving to New York in 1969, Virginia Cuppaidge is known for her internationally revered abstract paintings. She’s now living in Australia, unveiling a carefully restored, utterly luminous, six-metre work at this week’s Sydney Contemporary.
From Andy Warhol’s Polaroids to Platon’s portraits of Cate Blanchett and Vladimir Putin, the 10th Ballarat International Foto Biennale explores how the camera can depict reality or ‘truth’.
Charlotte Haywood’s new exhibition at Northsite Contemporary Arts is a sensory exploration of the relationship between all living things. “It is about needing to reframe our relationship with the living planet, and each other.”
With vivid new paintings and sculptures at Tolarno Galleries, Brendan Huntley talks about his use of colour, capturing energy, and the nature of creating.
From kewpie dolls used in the 2000 Sydney Olympics to a satirical bust from the 16th century, the Powerhouse Museum curatorium pick four of their favourites in the current show, 1001 Remarkable Objects.
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the animals we are familiar with in Australia.
Forget cultural nationalism, writes critic Lauren Carroll Harris, we fund art for a life of communal beauty and dignity.
Soil acts as both matter and metaphor in a new collaborative exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art that looks at the relationship between colonisation and environmental change.
Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa—and her art, showing at Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, is entwined with this history.
View, in pictures, the women of early Modernism in Australia, showing at the National Gallery of Australia’s new iteration of the Know My Name initiative—a series of exhibitions that shine a light on overlooked women artists through history.
A 1975 Mazda ute is embarking on a 3,200-kilometre trek from Kununurra, in the Kimberley, to Perth’s WA Museum Boola Bardip. Painted by Warmun artists, and transformed into a sound sculpture, what’s the story behind this car?
Elisabeth Cummings has painted dappled Australian landscapes for over 60 years. Ahead of her survey exhibition at NAS Gallery, she spoke influences, doubt, achievement, and the quiet moments that breathe life into art.
