Nell with her NELL ANNE Quilt Project, 2020. Photograph supplied by Nell for Art Guide Australia.
Lightning bolts, textiles, painting, Sonic Youth, smiley faces, and sculpture: with her smartphone, Nell has captured her life and art making in her Sydney home.
In our July/August magazine we profiled ten artists, and asked each artist to document their life with their smartphone. Nell’s snaps detail how she continued creating and thinking about art during the country’s May lockdown. Read our full profile on Nell, where she talks through rock’n’roll and Buddhism, and using symbols to draw upon the moments where language fails.
In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost.
Existing in the space between ritual, performance and ceremony, the body-centred work of Latai Taumoepeau rewrites the stories that shape our perception of Oceania—while using ancient traditions to tackle our most urgent modern concerns. Taumoepeau is now participating in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania at Artspace.
Congratulations to Aisha Sherman-Noth, who has won the 2025 Glover Prize for Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist wins $80,000 for the painting, which depicts weeping birch and poplar trees along the Brooker Highway into Hobart.
An exhibition now showing Adelaide Contemporary Experimental—with the likes of Atong Atem, Jacob Boehme and Marikit Santiago—explores the concept of family through the lens of First Nations and culturally diverse artists.
A touring exhibition based on a publication of the same title, Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali celebrates Bundjalung artists revitalising the practice of basket weaving, as well as the Bundjalung language—two forms of knowledge that are deeply connected. The exhibition is now showing at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.
The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers.
