All illustrations by Oslo Davis for Art Guide Australia.
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.
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.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
Offering a “new kind of hope,” Jacobus Capone’s solo show, End & Being, is the inaugural exhibition at the National Centre for Environmental Arts in Halls Gap.
Gaypalani Waṉambi has just won the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards of its kind.
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.
