Art Guide Australia

TIMMAH BALL is a writer of Ballardong Noongar heritage who is influenced by studying and working in the field of urban planning. Her writing has appeared in a range of anthologies and literary journals. OSLO DAVIS is an illustrator, cartoonist and ar

Where is there joy? It’s a question that is not often asked of contemporary art, and yet many of the artists in this issue look at joy—whether through its presence or absence. When Gwenneth Blitner speaks about her brilliant technicolour paintings of

EDITOR ISSUE #134 AND PODCAST PRODUCER Tiarney Miekus EDITOR Anna Dunnill WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Minna Gilligan GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jack Loel DESIGN ASSISTANT Dylan Reilly CONTRIBUTORS ISSUE #134 Timmah Ball, Oslo Davis, Steve Dow, Briony

Bark Ladies NGV International 22 December–May 2022 Imagine walking among Milngiyawuy (the Milky Way) and letting a river of stars flow around you. In the exhibition Bark Ladies at the National Gallery of Victoria, an artwork by Naminapu Maymuru-White

Becoming Alluvium Thao Nguyen Phan Institute of Modern Art 9 October—18 December Bringing together animation, painting, self-made footage and found images, Thao Nguyen Phan’s Becoming Alluvium is a mesmerising mixture of narratives. The single-channe

Coming Home Alex Martinis Roe Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 22 October—9 January 2022 The group known as the Jewish Adelaide Feminist Lesbians (or JAFL, for short) held its first meeting while a baby was being born in 1989. For the next 30 yea

Early Earth (Abstractions of time) Helga Groves Milani Gallery 6 November—27 November Drawn to extreme locations where geological change is rendered upon the landscape in violent and unpredictable ways, multidisciplinary artist Helga Groves translate

Madeleine Pfull Chalk Horse 23 November—18 December To view the portraits of Madeleine Pfull is a peculiarly evocative experience for anyone with strong memories of the 1980s and early 1990s—the décor, the fashion, the colours, the stylised ambience.

GOUT! A Mad Malady Eric Demetriou FUTURES Gallery Early 2022 The Ancient Greek satirist and writer, Lucian of Samosata, published hundreds of works during his lifetime from 125 AD to 180 AD. Among them is the tragi-comic verse Podágra—or in English,

SIMMER Murray Art Museum Albury 26 November—13 February 2022 Literally and culturally, food is a sustenance of life. It’s a way to feel connected to culture and community, and to share these connections with others—and it’s this truism that’s propell

www.acmi.net.au Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2] 03 8663 2200 Mon to Fri 12noon–5pm, Sat and Sun 10am–6pm. ACMI is your museum of screen culture. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us. The Story of the Moving Ima

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www.aarwungallery.com 11 Federation Square, Gold Creek, Nicholls, ACT 2913 [Map 16] 02 6230 2055 Daily 10am–5pm and by appointment in the evening. Colossal Youth Johnny Romeo Recent paintings. Being There FLOW AND EBB www.artistsshed.com.au 1–3/88 Wo

www.bettgallery.com.au Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart, TAS 7000. 03 6231 6511 Mon to Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat 10am–4pm. What stays within Michaye Boulter Bett Gallery Group Exhibition Valley Collection Art Collecting Group: Final Exhibition www.contem

www.aceopen.art Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End) Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8211 7505 Tue to Sat 11am–4pm. See our website for latest information. Water Rites Libby Harward, Archie Moore, Mandy Quadrio and more. Curated by

www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870 08 8951 1122 Daily 10am–4pm, Sun 10am–2pm. Closed Mon. Desert Mob Retrospective Multiple artists from the 30 years of Desert Mob. Greenbush Art Group Sculptural works by Batch