Preview Georgie Mattingley’s Creative Intelligence Operation Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions. Josephine Mead
Feature Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello’s Glass Acts Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form. Camilla Wagstaff
Preview Fluid Connections to come together as water is the most recent iteration of Blue Assembly—the University of Queensland Art Museum’s multi-year project exploring our relationship to the ocean. Curated by Freja Carmichael, it calls for First Nations sovereignty over waterways. Josephine Mead
Feature From the archive: art and the environment In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape. Art Guide Australia
Feature Raquel Caballero’s portal to the World of Oz In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour. Jane O'Sullivan
Feature Seeing Double A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head. Amelia Winata