La Trobe Art Institute

The La Trobe Art Institute (LAI) manages the art related activities of La Trobe University across its multiple campuses. The primary roles include the production of art exhibitions and integrated public programming, and the ongoing maintenance of the University’s extensive cultural collections of contemporary and historical artworks, social history and ethnographic objects.

Photography by Ian Hill.

La Trobe Art Institute

121 View Street Bendigo VIC 3550

03 5444 7272

latrobe.edu.au/art-institute

Tuesday to Friday, 10am–5pm. Weekends, 12pm–5pm.
Mon by appointment.

Feature

John Nixon: A Poet of Prints

Known as a great avant-garde painter, the late John Nixon also created hundreds of prints—which, as those who knew Nixon can attest, exemplify his minimalism, experimentalism, and his interlacing of life and art. John Nixon—Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints is currently on display at Geelong Gallery.

Autumn Royal

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The art books we loved in 2023

Whether scouting the perfect gift or searching for a summer read, our editors have picked their top art books of 2023—spanning everything from a history of ceramics, women and spiritualism, and First Nations practices.

Art Guide Editors

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Tacita Dean’s strange fortune

Since the early 1990s, British artist Tacita Dean has gifted us myriad artworks on the intimacy, unexpectedness, and materiality of film and image making. With a new survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, we look at Dean’s tracing of history and chance.

Isabella Trimboli

Feature

Posters on the pulse

Since their radical rise in the 1970s, posters have been used by artists and activists for feminist, political, environmental and cultural issues. As an exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery attests, today may be no different.

Louise Martin-Chew

Studio

Inside Kirtika Kain’s Sydney apartment, and now studio

Kirtika Kain’s Western Sydney apartment on Dharug Country is crowded with boxes of materials and new canvases. She came back from a residency in Italy in late 2022 and since then she’s been living alongside her work, preparing for her solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 and for the Biennale of Sydney next year. The cohabitation has been intense and sometimes messy, but Kain says studio life is teaching her new confidence.

Jane O'Sullivan

Opinion

When being an artist is a working title

What happens, asks artist Caitlin Shearer, when the starving artist trope becomes all too real, alienating artists from their practice, health and happiness?

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