Megan Daley, Maurice Shipp, Narelle Hutchings and other local Aboriginal community members who participated in Yerrabi Yurwang Women’s Circle. Yerrabi Yurwang presents the Yarwarj Mara – Strong Pathways Arts Collective. A group of proud Aboriginal people who engage and participate in community facing programs held at Yerrabi Yurwang Child and Family Aboriginal Corporation.
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.
The cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi’s presentation at Venice Biennale signals a long-simmering breakdown of trust between artists and institutions—one that risks threatening the breadth and depth of artistic expression in Australia for generations to come. Dee Jefferson reports.
Mungari, a landmark exhibition at Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, marks the return of the Gweagal spears to their ancestral country while speaking to the constellation of relationships that knit together people, objects and place.
Inspired by the ways in which nature informs creativity, the exhibition Material Nature, now showing at Drill Hall Gallery, aims to encourage viewers to think deeply about the human connection to the natural world.
