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 • May/June 2024

Art Guide Australia

Issue 149 Contributors

Geelong/Djilang • Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

Brisbane/Meanjin • Seeds and Sovereignty

Murrurundi • Breathwork

Darwin/Larrakia Country • Paperbark

Melbourne/Naarm • Qui Move In You

Hervey Bay/Butchulla Country • The White Man’s Web

Sydney/Eora • Fabrication

Adelaide/Kaurna Country • A winter beach is a good place for seeing clearly

Gold Coast/Yugambeh • Italian Renaissance Alive

Melbourne/Naarm • Aluminium

Where We Live • In times of scarcity and the Anthropocene, our homes, dwellings and emergency shelters take on a charged, emotive, and fundamental meaning—as Kasia Töns’s textile creations show us.

Status Anxiety • A new Mona exhibition, Namedropping, explores how status-seeking can link to biological evolution. But what happens when status is also a test of our character, telegraphing our values to the world?

Interview Pat Brassington

Studio Kez Hughes

Creating in the Age of the Anthropocene • As the harmony of nature feels increasingly fragile, what happens if your art centres nature itself?

Material Action • From the myth of gold-hunting termites to capturing minute rock particles, Nicholas Mangan’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art weaves narrative, materiality, and time.

Talking Promises Jill Orr • With a practice stretching over 50 years, celebrated artist Jill Orr is known for working with her body and centering responsibility towards our environment and place. History, and our position within it, are driving forces in her visually rich and image-driven practice, spanning visual art and performance.

All’s Pharaoh • The lure of ancient Egypt still holds for many, as the National Gallery of Victoria centres its winter exhibition on one figure: the pharaoh.

Everything In Between • Working between Indonesia and Australia, Jumaadi’s art draws on Javanese folk culture to excavate themes of colonialism, suffering, death and birth.

Beginnings and Endings • Two exhibitions at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery are exploring two varying yet interlocked conceptions of time: history as an evolutionary process amid our daily experiences of life.

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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