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 Australia

Issue 135 Contributors

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Dreaming of Hydraulic Insects • UK artist James Capper is bringing his insect-like, walking hydraulic sculptures to Australia, heralding an art practice of engineering, design and biology—all for a more sustainable future.

Rewriting The Script • The art of Léuli Eshrāghi is rigorous, beguiling and urgent: it’s searching for a future beyond the colonial present.

Interview Polly Borland • Intimate, sexualised, playful, primordial—these competing adjectives describe the abstract, almost sculptural, photographs of Polly Borland. For three decades Borland has used photography as her medium, creating images that are compelling in their abject nature. Born in Melbourne, Borland spent two decades in London photographing for publications like Vogue and The New Yorker, and famously capturing Queen Elizabeth for her Golden Jubilee in 2002. Eventually the artist shifted more fully into her artistic output and she talks about this move, as well as photographing people in power and the influences on her work.

Country and Celebrity • Vivid and exuberant, Kaylene Whiskey’s paintings are like nothing else. In her distinct style, Whiskey brings together celebrities and consumer culture with her Aboriginal heritage.

Studio Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Black, White, Red

River of Stars • The bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) of Naminapu Maymuru-White poignantly speak not only of Country, but an astral parallel: the Milky Way.

When Should You Work For Free? • When the arts sector relies upon free labour from artists and arts workers, how do we have conversations about real job equity and sustainability?

A Tangle of Materials • Creating layers of artificial and natural dyes, Jahnne Pasco-White’s quietly mesmerising canvases speak to an entwined relationship between painting, bodies, materials and the world.

Art for Turbulent Times • Based in Toronto, Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore is showing her first Australian solo exhibition, creating acts of Indigenous resistance through art, language and bodies.

Kangaroos With Attitude • The work of Gordon Hookey is a meeting point of Indigenous resistance, activism, and the power of art.

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A–Z Exhibitions Australian Capital Territory

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