A major self portrait by contemporary artist, Archie Moore (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) will be on view in Redcliffe for the first time. A celebrated multidisciplinary artist, Moore became the first Australian to win the Venice Biennale’s prestigious Golden Lion award for best national participation in 2024. Supported by the National Portrait Gallery, Mīal will be exhibited at regional venues nationally in 2025 and 2026.
Steffie Yee spent many years gathering stories and images of her family’s history in the town of Branxton, NSW where her parents successfully ran a Chinese restaurant. Yee’s solo exhibition Chinese Restaurant Playground, which celebrates playfulness and joy, recently opened at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.
In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.
In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.
Blak In-Justice, now showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art, challenges the brutal systems that shape Indigenous incarceration in Australia—while charting the healing power of ancestral knowledge in the process.
In Fairfield City Museum & Gallery’s latest exhibition Within Heaven and Earth, seven artists, including Linda Sok and Tianli Zu, use storytelling as a device to explore personal identity and cultural memory.
