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 139 Contributors

A Note From the Editor

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Into Painting • A respected cultural and arts leader, Pitjantjatjara woman Sally Scales has recently explored her own artistic practice—and the results are beguiling.

Fraught Relationships • Natalya Hughes’s art holds a piercing gaze on the historically male-dominated fields of art and psychoanalysis, claiming the necessary space for women’s representation.

Interview Judy Watson & Helen Johnson • Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are an ideal combination. Two of this country’s leading artists—a Waanyi woman and a woman of Anglo-descent respectively—their art centres on women, colonialism, and revealing history, albeit in differing ways. Earlier this year, they came together for the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) exhibition, the red thread of history, loose ends. An expanded iteration is now showing at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). The artists talk generously about working together, motherhood and colonialism.

View Through a Window • Using both painting and printmaking techniques, since the 1970s esteemed artist Cressida Campbell has drawn our attention to the beauty of what is often overlooked: the everyday.

Studio Tony Albert

Always Already

20 Questions with Paul Yore • Paul Yore’s installations and textiles are like nothing else. In blazes of colours, images and fonts, Yore blends images of pop and internet culture with political phrases and points, alongside his interests in decorative Flemish and French tapestries, trashy pop culture, psychedelia, cartoons and an aesthetic of total excess. For all the outward play and fun, when looked at slowly the work belies something much deeper. Ahead of his solo show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), we asked Yore 20 quick questions.

Rethinking Access • Bruno Booth makes art that challenges the ableist world—but he’d rather you call him a ‘con artist’ than a contemporary artist.

The ‘A’ Word • Whether it’s perpetuating or complicating ideas of ‘Australia’, much contemporary art relates to national identity. But what if conversations on art went beyond the nation-state?

Language of the Shield • The Kuman shield is intrinsic to Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman’s practice, with the artist’s vibrantly painted shields speaking to heritage, ritual and sport.

A World to Live In • Artist and DJ Hannah Bronte is using art to imagine a freer society with the spirit of true collectivity.

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 • Elder Place, Perth Cultural Centre, Wittenoom Street, High Street, Finnerty Street, Aberdeen Street, Glyde Street, Bussell Highway, Kent Street, Stirling Highway, St Georges Terrace, Railway Road, Henry Street, Colin Street, Captains Lane, James Street

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