Art Guide Australia

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.

A Note From the Editor • January/February 2024

Art Guide Australia

Issue 147 Contributors

Ballarat

Sydney

Murwillumbah

Melbourne

Hobart

Melbourne

Perth

Cairns

Adelaide

Wagga Wagga

Fairing Well • With art fairs nationally posting record results in 2023, the Melbourne Art Fair is now a yearly summer fixture. With over 60 galleries and Indigenous art centres hosting solo showings, this year’s theme is Ketherba/Together.

From Clay to Bronze • The first Torres Strait Islander artist to show in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden, Janet Fieldhouse gifts us her deep affinity for sculpture.

Interview Brent Harris

10 ARTISTS TO WATCH IN 2024 • From explorations of diaspora to Indigenous sovereignty, reality television to meditation, editor-in-chief Tiarney Miekus asked our writers to outline why these 10 artists are the ones to keep an eye on in 2024.

Georgia Banks • Georgia Banks takes the contemporary construction of selfhood to the extreme.

Archie Moore • Pushing political and formal boundaries, Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist Archie Moore is creating an ambitious installation for the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Warraba Weatherall • Warraba Weatherall links art and academia with genuine action.

Hannah Gartside • Hannah Gartside is one of the most exciting artists working with textiles today.

Eliza Gosse • There’s a complicated nostalgia to Eliza Gosse’s architectural paintings of Australian environments—particularly our homes.

Truc Truong • Between irreverence, meaning and humour, Truc Truong explores displacement and diaspora.

Corban Clause Williams • With a recent string of prize nominations and wins, Corban Clause Williams’s vivid paintings uniquely capture Country.

Tiyan Baker • A Malaysian Bidayǔh-Anglo Australian artist, Tiyan Baker works between history, language and digital processes, overturning Western conventions.

Nicholas Mangan • Unearthing is literal and metaphoric for Nicholas Mangan, who is looking ahead to a career-defining survey show.

Katie West • Through textiles and social experiences, Katie West forges exquisite spaces of meditation and decolonisation.

Studio Christopher Bassi

Talking with Diana Baker Smith

Poet of Prints • Known as a great avant-garde painter, the late John Nixon also created hundreds of prints—which, as those who knew Nixon can attest, exemplify his minimalism, experimentalism, and his interlacing of life and art.

Comment Artists As Influencers: Advertising or Advocacy? • By mere virtue of using social media, artists unavoidably project a ‘personal brand’—but what ethics are at play when artists become active influencers for businesses, products or political positions?

Holding Ancestral Legacies • From co-founding pivotal First Nations collectives to a trailblazing curating and academic career, to an equally profound art practice, Brenda L Croft centralises family and culture—which resonates as much as ever.

Photography: Real & Imagined

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