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.

Art Guide

Issue 134 Contributors

A Note From the Editor

Previews • Due to Covid-19 restrictions, dates may be subject to change.

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How Are Our Galleries Faring? • With pandemic restrictions and the shift to digital, how are Australia’s commercial galleries handling the changes of the last 18 months? Mostly, it’s looking quite optimistic.

Fabric of Time • With textiles as her medium, Hannah Gartside engages with the histories, textures and movements of material.

The Superhero’s Cape • Going from a young Batman to mentoring children in cape-making workshops, Dennis Golding’s art is about Indigenous empowerment.

Interview Marco Fusinato • Noise and silence, underground and institution, maximalism and minimalism. For over three decades Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato has held these tensions across his noise guitar performances, installations, appropriated musical scores, and drawings. Interrogating moments of extremity, whether political or musical, Fusinato will soon represent Australia in the 2022 Venice Biennale. He talks about punk, noise and music, and moments of extremity.

Technicolour Joy • The vividly colourful flower and landscape paintings of Gwenneth Blitner not only convey connection to Country, but the joy of painting itself.

Mystery Road • In art, a sense of mystery can capture a viewer’s imagination, creating a reprieve from our current reality. But as market forces risk turning identity into commodity, who is granted the privilege of artistic mystique?

Notes From a Cataclysmic Atmosphere • After experiencing months of life in lockdown, the famous still life paintings of Henri Matisse take on an atmosphere that’s equally charged, cataclysmic, and very still.

Portraits of Our Time • Through her photographic portraits, Hoda Afshar gives us 21st-century images that speak to trauma, justice and humanity.

On Women, Ageing, Art • Forging a photographic practice throughout the 1970s feminism movement, Ponch Hawkes is now turning to a feminist issue of the moment: the ageing female body.

Beware the Art Enabler • You shouldn’t always listen to that little voice in your head.

Connecting to Aboriginal Land • From his alter ego Blak Metal to exhibiting the figure of a saddened black air dancer, Steven Rhall is embarking on a new artwork: renaming Wi-Fi networks to ABORIGINAL LAND.

Great Wings Beating • Compelled by Greek mythology, Heather B. Swann is reinterpreting the story of Leda and the Swan—and the story’s violence—through female strength, power and mystery.

A–Z Exhibitions Victoria • James Street, McClelland Drive, Flinders Lane, Gertrude Street, Sturt Street, Federation Square, Dodds Street, Punt Road, Rokeby Street, Lyttleton Street, Dunns Road, Nicholson Street, Willis Street, Abbotsford Street, Little Malop Street, Tinning Street, Cureton Avenue, Alma Road, Langford Street, Lydiard Street North, Albert Street, Horseshoe Bend, Bourke Street, Whitehorse Road, Vere Street, Barkers Road, Roberts Avenue, Templestowe Road, Church Street

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