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25.01.2022 Our November/December print issue is out now, with a cover featuring Ryan Presley’s painting ‘Crown Land (till the ends of the earth)’, 2020. This issue captures how artists, creatives, galleries and museums have kept going throughout a turbulent, unpredictable, and utterly unfathomable year. Inside, Tracey Clement visits the studio of artist Guy Warren, whoat 99 years oldis working towards three upcoming exhibitions; Nanette Orly discusses how artists have been connecting... with viewers via the postal service; and Anna Dunnill takes a look at why we’re so drawn to textiles. In addition, read about the unique perspective of Tiwi artists, get insight into Reko Rennie’s graffiti-inspired roots, and delve into the remarkable performances of Pat Larter. Look out for your copy in galleries and newsagents near youor get it delivered straight to your door! You can subscribe via our websitethe link is in our bio.
25.01.2022 This year’s Floating Land is the eleventh iteration of the biennial outdoor sculpture festival based in Noosa Heads.
25.01.2022 In Oracle at Bett Gallery Hobart, Brigita Ozolins presents words of wisdom lifted from ancient tomes, including the Bible and the I-Ching.
25.01.2022 With Friendship as a Way of Life at UNSW Galleries, curators Doley and Jos da Silva present a celebratory testament to the way that LGBTQI+ artists and communities have imparted space, time and support to one another by building kinship structures, from clubs, communes and share-houses to scene parties, publications and symposia.
25.01.2022 Gangguan Tenggara Edisi Indonesia is the fourth and final in Bega Valley Regional Gallerys South/East Interference exhibition series. In this iteration the focus is on Indonesia and how we relate to one of our closest neighbours, says curator and gallery director Iain Dawson.
24.01.2022 Working between Melbourne and Bangkok, Lesley Dumbrell has sent us snaps of home life: creating, gardening and pets.
24.01.2022 In this interview, William Robinson, 85-year-old painter of twisted otherworldly landscapes, reveals how he learned to translate both loss and time in his work.
23.01.2022 Congratulations to Wongutha-Yamatji artist and first-time Archibald Prize entrant Meyne Wyatt on winning the 2020 Packing Room Prize with his self-portrait, titled Meyne. The finalists of this years Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes have been announced and are viewable on the Art Gallery of New South Wales website. The winners will be announced on Friday 25 September.
23.01.2022 The 2022 Biennale of Sydney is tipped to focus on sustainability and collaboration, with Colombian curator Jos Roca leading the way.
23.01.2022 Destiny Deacon once said of her art that there is a laugh and tear in each picture. With the reopening of National Gallery of Victoria Ian Potter Centre NGV, there is still time to catch Deacon's massive retrospective show 'DESTINY'.
22.01.2022 Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996) remains a towering figure in Australian contemporary art. In his essay for Thames & Hudsons mini monograph on the artist, reproduced in full below, well known Irish writer Colm Tibn offers an outsiders interpretation of Kngwarreyes incredible work.
22.01.2022 Pilar Mata Dupont traverses generations and geographies to engage with the complexities of cultural identity and displacement. The Argentinian-Australian artist’s solo exhibition at Moore Contemporary is grounded in extensive ancestral research. Motherhood, trauma and the body, and colonial anxiety are key themes, Mata Dupont explains.
22.01.2022 Despite being in ongoing lockdown in Melbourne, Hannah Gartside is still creating, giving attention to the tactility, movement and histories of textiles. In her 'Smartphone Snaps' feature for Art Guide Australia, Gartside takes us into the intimacy of home lifebuying a diamante cat collar for her new feline adoptee Cloud, hanging out with housemates, and tending to the veggie patch.
21.01.2022 LGBTQI+ people flash their tats and tell their tales in 'SKIN DEEP' at the National Art School Cell Block Theatre.
21.01.2022 Inspired by being in lockdown, South Australian gallerist Paul Greenaway initiated an international online project. Sheridan Hart spoke to him, and two of the artists involved, about using art to cross borders and bring comfort. The result, an exhibition titled Art in the Time of COVID-19, is on display at the Art Gallery of South Australia from Friday 4 September.
21.01.2022 Building a personal brand can feel non-negotiable for artistsbut is it worth the cost?
21.01.2022 Children can radically alter how artists approach their workand some even find themselves collaborating with their kids.
20.01.2022 Creating, evolving and innovating over decades takes great stamina. Our latest podcast The Long Run explores the life-stages of three artists who each have careers spanning 60 years. In this first and lively episode, Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
20.01.2022 "When Vincent Namatjira won the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture for 'Stand strong for who you are', his painting of AFL player Adam Goodes, there was a widely held feeling that justice had been done." Click through to read Andrew Frost's latest opinion piece 'On The Couch With Andrew Frost'.
20.01.2022 Famous for her sculptures of life-size hybrid creatures, which she calls chimeras, Patricia Piccinini places human and non-human creatures in relationships that are as loving and empathic as they are unnerving. Piccininis latest exhibition, titled The Gardeners Eye, is currently on display at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney and online.
20.01.2022 Billy Missi believed in the power of art to make change. NorthSite Contemporary Arts is exhibiting a significant retrospective survey of the Torres Strait Islander artists worldview, which acknowledged the voices of plants, animals of people.
20.01.2022 Porcelain, fur, paraffin wax, silk, resin, glass, bones, fox and rabbit pelt, Tibetan gazelle horns. With a solo exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery, these are just some of the materials Juz Kitson uses to create her highly tactile, creature-like sculptural forms.
20.01.2022 Working with textiles and bronze, Teelah George uses her smartphone to capture her new life in Melbourne, showing us intimate details of her life.
20.01.2022 After being closed for several years, the Western Australian Museum has reopened with a new name, WA Museum Boola Bardip, and a renewed focus on a deeper understanding of Indigenous knowledge.
19.01.2022 Our online lives are on steroids at present. Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online is prescient in this regard. Planned as a physical exhibition, it segued onto UQ Art Museum online with the pandemic and social-distancing.
19.01.2022 Barbara Cleveland is a mythic persona reclaimed from 1970s Australian art history. A new retrospective explores her ‘forgotten’ life and practicewhich is to say, the forgotten practices of non-male creatives at large.
19.01.2022 The touring exhibition 'John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new' is about to reach its second last stop: Bunjil Place in Melbourne. Anna Dunnill spoke to one of the exhibition’s co-curators, Clothilde Bullen, at the beginning of its two-year-long journey.
19.01.2022 What happens when slogans and catchphrases are treated as instructions? In 2020, a year riddled with new phrases and contradictory messaging, Michelle Hamer has had plenty to work with. Hamer's latest exhibition '2020 is Cancelled?' is currently on display at Warrnambool Art Gallery.
19.01.2022 What does it mean to create art between two cultures? What relationships are formed when artists collaborate? What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? These questions, and more, are explored in the second episode of our newest podcast series 'FEM-aFFINITY', featuring a very honest and intimate conversation with photographer Janelle Low.
19.01.2022 Jeffrey Smart’s paintings are distinctive. Sparsely populated, some of his near-empty metropolitan scenes have a melancholic, almost cataclysmic, airlike prescient glimpses of cities in lockdownwhile others seem infused with an irreverent and sophisticated sense of play. With a large-scale retrospective of Jeffrey Smart’s work, due to open soon at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, we have asked artists Rick Amor, Joanna Lamb, Christopher Pease and Erin Coates, and curator Barry Pearce, to each comment on one of Smart’s paintings.
18.01.2022 For three decades Lisa Roet has used drawing and sculpture to highlight the similarities between humans and apesclose relations with whom we share 98% of our DNA.
18.01.2022 Tracey Clement takes a close look at Ben Quilty’s recent painting, '2020', and talks to the artist about how he sees the world. A range of paintings from the same series can be viewed in Quilty’s solo show, 'Still life after the virus', at Jan Murphy Gallery from 27 October.
18.01.2022 Do I have to spell it out for you? at Town Hall Gallery brings together a group of artists incorporating language and text into their work. Through puns, song lyrics, spoken word and personal musings, the artists highlight the complexities of language to create community, define identity and tell stories. The exhibition is on display in full online at the Town Hall Gallery website.... Image: Nasim Nasr, The Home, 2017, laser cut digital print on white cotton rag 320gsm, 100 x 80 cm.
17.01.2022 The $50,000 Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture 2020 winner has been announced as Serena Cowie for her work titled 'The conversation'. The finalists' artworks will be on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 31 October to 29 November 2020. Image: Serena Cowie, 'The conversation’ Subject: Maria Arvanitis and Alexandra Perrott. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
16.01.2022 From Marlon Brando’s Triumph Thunderbird 6T in ‘The Wild One’ to the Harley-Davidsons of ‘Easy Rider’, motorcycles have, over the decades, given art and entertainment some pivotal, iconic moments.
16.01.2022 Tinged with sadness and a wicked sense of humour, Karla Dickens creates art that speaks of identity, discrimination and acts of violence against Aboriginal people. In our interview, Dickens talks about creating new work, her hometown of Lismore, and the importance of writing poetry.
16.01.2022 Through the stark aesthetic of his smartphone images, Lawrence English provides a striking take on Brisbane life during lockdown.
16.01.2022 Queer cultural vernacular suffuses the art of Troy-Anthony Baylis. Sydney-born and Adelaide-based, Baylis has called his new exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery 'Yes, I am musical', drawing upon the 1950s term for identifying same-sex-attracted men.
15.01.2022 It is the human desire to create objects that Obsessed: Compelled to Make at Cowra Regional Art Gallery explores. What drives artists to devote entire careers to perfecting techniques, pushing mediums, expanding material processes?
15.01.2022 At first glance, Susanne Kerr’s large gouache paintings of delicate floral arrangements convey lightness and whimsybut something else is going on under the surface.
14.01.2022 Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is weaving its way into her practice.
14.01.2022 Scars are evidence of injury, but they are also a mark of healing, resilience and survival. Penny Evans draws on the emotional implications of both of these meanings in her haunting solo exhibition of ceramic works, Language of the Wounded, at Lismore Regional Gallery.
14.01.2022 It transcends time and cultures, says Geelong Gallery senior curator Lisa Sullivan of the well-known, perhaps even iconic, Frederick McCubbin painting 'A bush burial', 1890. The hardships of the settler experience are timeless, and for many, relatable even today. The painting is a centrepiece of 'Frederick McCubbin Whisperings in wattle boughs', a landmark exhibition that marks 125 years of Geelong Gallery.
14.01.2022 A much-loved educator, artist and mentor, Kate Daw was a quintessential Melbourne art-world figure and a significant artist of her generation. Jon Cattapan, her colleague at Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne - VCA & Conservatorium, where Daw was Head of Art, remembers her life and incredible contribution to art and artists everywhere.
14.01.2022 At Contemporary Art Tasmania, artist Lou Conboy navigates myth, resilience and the craggy Tasmanian coast.
13.01.2022 As a survey of textile artwork, FIBRE at Homes Court Gallery: Vasse Felix presents a profusion of different themes diving into process, tradition and community.
13.01.2022 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will reopen its renovated space in early 2021. But ACMI has already unleashed 'XOS', the shorthand title for its new internet experience operating system, which features artworks and performances curated and created specifically for online, and a new video-on-demand service for arthouse and festival films.
13.01.2022 Our latest September/October print issue features Juz Kitsons sculpture titled Content with its transitory nature. The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring on the cover. During the last few months in which this issue was put together, artists and galleries have shown great innovation in reinventing programs for an online audiencein many cases expanding their accessibility in doing sowhich suggests exciti...ng possibilities for the future of engaging with art alongside the physical gallery experience. This issue highlights exhibitions on display around the country and gives insight into whats to come for galleries and artists in Victoria. Look out for your copy in galleries and newsagents near you. For those in Victoria, its easy to have a copy delivered straight to your door. Subscribe via our website.
13.01.2022 In Holding Patterns at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art artists adapt to working during this uncertain new normal.
13.01.2022 As part of a bumper Budget announcement yesterday, the Victorian government confirmed their commitment to fund the construction of Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, NGV Contemporary.
12.01.2022 Indigenous geometry, hip-hop and road movieswelcome to the art of Reko Rennie.
12.01.2022 How have Australia’s commercial galleries been faring through the last two years, and how are they feeling about the future? Mostly, it’s looking quite optimistic.
12.01.2022 After Victoria’s lengthy lockdown, Anna Schwartz Gallery opens a new space with Stephen Bram’s paintings.
12.01.2022 Carlene Thompson, who got her start at the Aboriginal owned and operated art centre Ernabella Arts in the APY Lands, is an artist who effortlessly works across multiple mediums including painting, printmaking, wood carving, ceramics and fibre-based works.
11.01.2022 Held in and around Alice Springs, or Mparntwe as it is known to the local Arrernte people, Parrtjima Australia is an annual nocturnal festival which features illuminated sculptures by Indigenous artists and ambitious outdoor lightshows. This year, the festival will run from 11 20 September.
11.01.2022 Myles Young explores themes of relaxation, exploration and amusement in his newest exhibition titled Country Invitations at Edwina Corlette Gallery. "I spent my days sitting in the sun and staring at the trees in silence. I wanted to paint this feeling of taking refuge and having a base to explore from. Myles Young
11.01.2022 An insightful exhibition unfolds 50 years of contemporary art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
10.01.2022 'PHOTO 2021', which runs across multiple venues in Melbourne, tackles truth in the post-truth era.
10.01.2022 Commissioned as a part of the ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Open series, Neighbour by Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich is a friendly, flirty chat bot who is centred on uncovering one potent question: how does it feel?
10.01.2022 Yayoi Kusama’s 'Narcissus Garden', on at multiple Sydney Living Museums sites, invites audiences to reflect on the pleasures and pitfalls of selfie culture.
10.01.2022 Danie Mellors new online exhibition at Tolarno Galleries Melbourne The Sun Also Sets, made up of paintings and large-format photomontages, is a deeply considered meditation on time, culture and the notion of landspace.
09.01.2022 What does it mean to create and innovate over six decades? Art Guide Australias newest podcast series The Long Run considers this question with three artists who have had careers spanning sixty years, each reflecting on their art and lives. In the second episode Tiarney Miekus speaks with landscape painter Wendy Stavrianos. Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
09.01.2022 'Symbiosis', the inaugural #bankstownbiennale, has appropriately been assembled by two curators working in tandem, Vandana Ram and Heidi Axelsen, who have brought together the work of 20 Australian artists and writers.
09.01.2022 When Kerry Gardner became Chair of Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2018 she began unearthing the slightly obscure history of Australian participation in the event. In the new book 'Australia at the Venice Biennale' she presents the results of her research.
08.01.2022 Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, 'The Partnershipping Project' brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops. After touring to three regional locations via shipping container, the exhibition is about to open at its fourth and final destination, Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
08.01.2022 Caroline Zilinsky has been announced as the winner of the $50,000 Evelyn Chapman Art Award. Zilinsky’s winning work, 'Heiress to the Pied Piper', is a portrait of philanthropist Joanne Cowan who has devoted her life to the field of addressing substance abuse. Image: Caroline Zilinsky, 'Heiress to the Pied Piper', 2020.
08.01.2022 In ACE Opens 2020 South Australian Artist Survey If the future is to be worth anything, the Adelaide-based contemporary art gallery invited artists and collectives to create new work, embarking upon unrealised projects.
08.01.2022 The vibrant multi-disciplinary works of Noongar artist Patrick William Carter are, in their way, love stories: love of family, music, Country and culture.
07.01.2022 Artist and ‘feral trader’ Kate Rich asks how artists might shake up business as usual.
07.01.2022 In this 'Smartphone Snaps' feature, painter Eleanor Louise Butt offers an intimate glimpse of her home and studio in the Dandenong Ranges during Victoria’s lockdown. Butt's latest solo exhibition, titled 'Resonant Iterations', is currently on display at Gallery 9 online.
07.01.2022 Melbourne artist Daniel Jenatsch is the winner of the $10,000 John Fries Award (2020) Daniel's winning work is a richly layered sound and animatronics installation. The judges found Daniel Jenatsch's conceptual and aesthetic approach well resolved and utterly compelling, says 2020 curator Miriam Kelly. Image: Daniel Jenatsch, 'The Close World' 2021. Image courtesy of UNSW Galleries.
07.01.2022 From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.
07.01.2022 Publication 'MPavilion: Encounters with Design and Architecture' documents the six temporary architectural structures (MPavilions) commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation between 2014 and 2019.
06.01.2022 Vale Kate Daw 19652020 Tributes have flowed for Dr Kate Daw, a significant Melbourne-based artist and teacher, who passed away on Monday. Throughout her 30-year artistic career, Daws expansive practice examined narrative, authorship, history and memory, championing the stories and experience of women. Her work often featured typewritten text paintings, pearlescent ceramic lettering, and found images, texts and patterns, assembled to evoke particular moods and memories.... Daws infectious energy, warmth and generosity influenced the hundreds of students she taught and mentored during her two decades at the Victorian College of the Arts, where she was Head of the School of Art. Her passing is a devastating loss for the visual arts community, and she will be greatly missed. Photographs by Jesse Marlow, 2014.
04.01.2022 Vale John Nixon 19492020. Writer Andrew Stephens reflects on Nixons vast and innovative legacy. "While he firmly established a specific vision for the art he wanted to make, John Nixon always remained an artist who loved to experiment and explore. During his life, more personally, he was a man who had the generosity of spirit to encourage other artists to find their own distinctive paths. Nixon, say friends and colleagues, was inspiring, generous, wise, supportive and good-humoured."
03.01.2022 Over the last decade, Michael Cook has produced photo media works that interrogate the legacy of colonisation in Australia. The first survey exhibition of Cooks practice is currently on display at USC Art Gallery in Queensland.
03.01.2022 Alex Seton is known for his marble sculptures. These carved stone works often mimic the soft folds of fabric, but they have a hard political edge. Revisit our January 2020 studio visit with Seton, ahead of his current exhibition at Sullivan + Strumpf titled 'Meet Me Under the Dome'. https://artguide.com.au/alex-seton
02.01.2022 An upcoming exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art showcases the strength and immediacy of Joy Hesters drawings, which powerfully express internal states of emotion.
02.01.2022 In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles in which we turn the spotlight on a single artwork, Tracey Clement takes a close look at Ben Quiltys recent painting, 2020, and talks to the artist about how he sees the world.
01.01.2022 Today is #AskACurator Day a social media Q&A with museums and galleries participating worldwide. To recognise #AskACurator Day, we invite you to revisit our Conversations with Curators Podcast series, hosted by our print editor Tiarney Miekus. Listen to conversations with Australian curators Anna Davis, Nici Cumpston, Andy Butler and David Hurlston via the link below. https://artguide.com.au/?s=Podcast+Conversations+Curators
01.01.2022 The National Exhibitions Touring Support - NETS Victoria touring exhibition 'Craftivism' has now reached its final venue, USC Art Gallery. 'Craftivism' features 18 Australian artists who share an affinity for craft-based art with political gestures.
01.01.2022 A new sculpture exhibition at Devonport Regional Gallery considers how our experience of space is psychological, cultural and surreal.
01.01.2022 The art of Patrick Hall is a repository of memory that weaves together poetic narratives of world history and personal experience, in particular the history of World War II. His work is now showing at Despard Gallery in Hobart.
01.01.2022 Yandel Walton wants us to be both alert and alarmed. Her exhibition Shifting Surrounds, at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, immerses visitors in the climate emergency.
01.01.2022 Mel OCallaghans art delves into one of our most fundamental questions at UQ Art Museum.
01.01.2022 The Melbourne Art Foundation who manage the Melbourne Art Fair continue to respond to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. They have announced that, with the safety of the public, gallerists, and artists in mind, the next Melbourne Art Fair has been rescheduled from 2021 to 2022.
