Art Lovers Australia – Melbourne

Art Lovers Australia opened the doors to their new gallery space in Melbourne/ Naarm at the end of 2021. Nestled in an iconic art pocket of Collingwood, the opening of this new gallery is a bright new adventure for the Art Lovers Australia team.

Art Lovers Australia have been one of Australia’s premier online galleries since 2016 and represents over 1,000+ artists Australia wide.

Art Lovers Australia – Melbourne

300 Wellington Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia

1800 278 568

artloversaustralia.com.au

Mon to Fri 9.30am–5pm
or by appointment.

Preview

Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Feature

Shadow and light

A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.

Rosamund Brennan

Feature

Sammy Hawker’s acts of co-creation

Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.

Camilla Wagstaff

Interview

Julie Fragar on “painting in the first person”

With a current survey exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.

Briony Downes

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Silent Spring

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.

Dee Jefferson

In Pictures

Shifting Frames: An evolution of self and place

In an Australian first, the Art Gallery of Western Australia presents Moving Landscape—an exhibition by internationally acclaimed US artist Sam Contis, curated alongside Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson.

Art Lovers Australia – Melbourne

Art Lovers Australia – Melbourne

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