Willoh S. Weiland smartphone selfie.
Curious, mystical, humourous and bittersweet, Willoh S. Weiland uses her smartphone to give us a sense of living and working in Hobart.
Taken during the national lockdown in May 2020, and featured in our July/August magazine, Weiland is one of ten profiled artists who documented their life with their smartphone, detailing moments in life: taxi receipts, cemeteries, Shell oil cylinders. Read our full profile on Weiland, where she discusses harnessing performance to explore power and feminism.
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.
Community is the foundation of Claire Conroy’s exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery. As a new arrival to the area, her art practice ties her to fellow artists, while her medium, camera obscura, allows for a deepening of social connections with her sitters as they commit to the shoot.
As I walk through the suburban streets, I find myself thinking about the publication Speech Patterns: Nadia Hernández & Jon Campbell. It accompanied their two-person exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2022, which explored their shared preoccupations with class, identity and value systems.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
