Making art vs making ends meet, especially during a cost of living crisis, means making tough decisions, Oslo Davis discovers.
All illustrations by Oslo Davis for Art Guide Australia November/December 2023 print edition.
Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student union newspaper-turnturned-magazine celebrates a hundred years of publication. At a time when print publishing in the arts is under increasing pressure, The George Paton Gallery is exhibiting ‘Farrago 100 Years’, celebrating the editorial legacy and design innovation of the periodical.
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 paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
Gabriela Burkhalter’s The Playground Project at Incinerator Gallery reinvents the typically serious installation space, inviting children to play, reminding us of its importance within the arts.
Curators Martyn Jolly and Tony Oates’ Light Source, brings together ten artists whose work incorporates combinations of light projection and performance at Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra.
At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration. A retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the evolution of her practice.
