Art Guide Australia is a print and online magazine exploring contemporary Australian art. Our editors and our team of writers and contributors know the local art scene and keep you informed through engaging and thoughtful articles. We speak with artists, curators and gallerists to learn more about their ideas and share them with an audience who want to know more about Australian art and what to see. We’re here to support a vibrant and diverse arts community and our aim is to provide independent, considered editorial coverage alongside a comprehensive picture of what’s happening in the visual arts across Australia.
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Raised by Wolves • From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as the exhibition Fairy Tales reveals.
Strange Fortune • Since the early 1990s, British artist Tacita Dean has gifted us myriad artworks on the intimacy, unexpectedness, and materiality of film and image making. With a much-awaited survey in Sydney, we look at Dean’s tracing of history and chance.
Interview Mike Parr
Studio Kirtika Kain
An Account of Life
It’s A Horror Show • Horror is where the marginalised can see themselves—as a horror-themed exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art reveals.
Ways of Healing Country • For Betty Muffler art making and healing are indistinguishable. Evoking Country through the view of the eagle, she’s now showing in the NGV Triennial alongside a host of international names.
Talking with Lisa Gorman
Women In Still Life • As representations of contemporary life, especially the domestic and intimate, continue to be meaningful, the still life genre endures—as 16 women artists attest.
On Second Thoughts • Making art vs making ends meet, especially during a cost of living crisis, means making tough decisions, Oslo Davis discovers.
Spiritual Science • From the dark matter that holds the universe together to the smallest of seeds, Sundari Carmody’s art connects the cosmos with the intimate.
A–Z Exhibitions Victoria
A–Z Exhibitions New South Wales
A–Z Exhibitions Queensland
A–Z Exhibitions Australian Capital Territory
A–Z Exhibitions Tasmania
A–Z Exhibitions South Australia
A–Z Exhibitions Western Australia
A–Z Exhibitions Northern Territory
Maps
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