Preview
Gregory Hodge: Fictions
Gregory Hodge’s illusionary paintings trick the eye into seeing lavish, three-dimensional swirls of paint.
Feature
Performing labour in Alicia Frankovich’s The Work
In The Work, the focus is on the labouring body. How do bodies act and react when they are put to work? What might this reveal about physical strength and limitations, power dynamics and social relations?
Rebecca Gallo
News
Jack Lanagan Dunbar wins 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been awarded the $40,000 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The Sydney-based artist was selected from a field of nine finalists for his body of work titled Pantheon.
Art Guide Australia
News
Jahnne Pasco-White wins Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Art Guide Australia
Preview
Off the Canvas
“Robert Dickerson is quite well loved in Newcastle,” Loretta Morton says. “Visitors will come to the gallery and ask to see Guy, a portrait of his son held in our permanent collection, or a Whiteley, or a Margaret Olley.”
Tracey Clement
News
Rew Hanks wins Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2019
Rew Hanks has won the $16,000 first prize in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with his two-metre-long linocut, Gone Fishing East of Faskrudsfjordur.
Art Guide Australia
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River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin
Barnaby Smith takes an in-depth look at River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin, an exhibition focused on the continued devastation of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Barnaby Smith
Preview
John Scurry’s Winter the catalyst for new exhibition
John Scurry’s small paintings are formless and atmospheric, evoking only a suggestion of landscape or the misty hues of dawn.
Briony Downes
Review
Robert Andrew uses kinetic presence to evoke cultural change
Using machinery to gradually erode a half-tonne block of soil, Andrew explores the relationship between Country and cultures.
Louise Martin-Chew
Preview
Conscious Intuition: Eugene Carchesio and Diena Georgetti
Longstanding artistic explorations of the tension between formalism and intuition reunite good friends Eugene Carchesio and Diena Georgetti in their first two-person exhibition.
Michaela Bear
Insiders
Cosmopolitan
Chris McAuliffe recommends Cosmopolitan at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of art insiders share their thoughts on what to see this month.
Preview
Paper Tigers: Posters From Sydney’s Long 70s
Sydney’s exuberant history of creativity and dissent comes to life in Paper Tigers, an exhibition of 200 screen printed posters from the 1970s.
