Self Portrait by Robert Fielding for Art Guide Australia.
Living and working from Mimili in the APY Lands, Robert Fielding, via his smartphone, shows us the beauty of his surrounds.
Featured in our July/August magazine, these images are an intimate look into Fielding’s practice and home, capturing the poignancy of the South Australian landscape. Read our full profile on Fielding, where he discusses how his practice, which blends innovation with traditional forms, is always about telling the stories of others.
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.
An exhibition 50 years in the making, Auto-Photo: A life in Portraits currently on display at RMIT Gallery, celebrates the life of Alan Adler, one of the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technicians in the world.
Artists communicate across space and time in the expansive inaugural exhibition, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art at the newly renovated Potter Museum of Art.
Curated by artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi, the program is centred by the theme of Rememory. Originating from author Toni Morrison, the ideas seek to explore the intersection of memory and history—revisiting, reconstructing and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed.
Hobart-based Max Mueller’s In the Sticks exhibition at Handmark Gallery features oil-on-linen works that show tranquil scenes of Tasmania, musing on how nature is managed and maintained in a context of civilisation and curation.
With an approach to artmaking drawn from the “fieldwork of life”, twin brothers and artistic collaborators Man&Wah, who are now showing at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, use plant migration to explore duality and movement.
