Art Guide Australia

EDITOR AND PODCAST PRODUCER Tiarney Miekus ASSISTANT EDITOR Autumn Royal WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Minna Gilligan GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jack Loel DESIGN ASSISTANTS Girivarshan Balasubramanian CONTRIBUTORS ISSUE #138 Andy Butler, Brenda L Crof

ANDY BUTLER is an artist, writer and curator based in Narrm/Melbourne. His arts criticism has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and frieze. BRENDA L CROFT is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the

“I’ve got something to say,” reads the caption on Hayley Millar Baker’s cover image for this issue, which overdubs a photograph of a young child sitting casually on the phone. The mix of emotions is emblematic of the Gunditjmara artist’s practice, an

Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles Gallery of Modern Art 18 June—3 October Chiharu Shiota’s exquisite, renowned artworks trace life and death, the intangible aspects of human existence, and the way we remember and dream. Known for her evocative large-

From Sunrise Road Bruce Munro Heide Museum of Modern Art 25 June—16 October For over four decades, the acclaimed English-Australian artist Bruce Munro has held an enduring fascination with how time, memory, and transience are experienced individually

Still in My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and Gatakers Artspace 11 June—21 August In 1966 in the Northern Territory, 200 Gurindji workers pushed forward the land rights movement in Australia. Known as t

Bush Diwan Benalla Art Gallery 5 August—16 October Bush Diwan takes as its departure point the remarkable life of Siva Singh. A Punjabi Sikh from India who migrated to Benalla in 1897, Singh left an immense legacy with his community and religious lea

Motherhood Sheree Dohnt Bunbury Regional Art Gallery 18 June—7 August A newborn shares a moment of skin-to-skin contact on their mother’s chest. A woman lies on the couch with a cat on her lap and a child by her side, staring into the middle distance

Drawn Together David Fairbairn Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 5 August—16 October David Fairbairn’s deeply felt, emotive portraits are a soulful meditation on ageing and companionship. These are perhaps long-time themes for the widely respected artist,

Quietly Spoken Annette Blair Canberra Glassworks 15 June—14 August Annette Blair has been blowing, sculpting, carving, and painting glass for over 20 years—and now she’s exquisitely demonstrating this knowledge and experience in her first solo exhibi

Of Light Jessica Loughlin JamFactory Adelaide 15 July—18 September Over the last 20 years, Jessica Loughlin has explored the idea of stillness through glass. Her minimalistic kiln-formed works interact with light to create moments of emptiness, askin

Evidence and The Visible Catherine Rogers ANU Drill Hall Gallery 24 June—14 August Alongside digital photography, artist Catherine Rogers also relies on analogue techniques like cyanotype—a distinctive photographic printing process—and the pinhole ca

Return to the Hook Olivia Colja Kolbusz Space 22 July—24 July and online A sharp two-stanza poem by Margaret Atwood ends with the lines “a fish hook / an open eye”. It offers an uncomfortable positioning of being both inside and outside the boundarie

Describe your practice in seven words? Auto-fiction, multifaceted—conceptually and visually, retrospective, currently shifting! Your first art love? Paul Gauguin and Lin Onus. Why do you shoot mostly monochromatic works rather than colour? I actually

www.acaearts.com.au 82A Wellington Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3] 03 9193 3449 Tues to Sun 10am–5pm. See our website for latest information. 14 June—18 July In Focus: Conversations With Eight Contemporary Artists Sarah Mottram www.acmi.net.au

www.16albermarle.com 16 Albermarle Street, Newtown, NSW 2042 [Map 7] 02 9550 1517 or 0433 020 237 Thu to Sat 11am–5pm, or by appointment. 25 June—31 July Exhibition #10: Other Possible Worlds: Contemporary art from Thailand Including work by 12 young

www.artloversaustralia.com.au Unit 14, Brickworks Annex, 19 Warehouse Road, Southport, QLD 4215 [Map 13] 1800 278 568 Tues to Sat 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 9 July—30 July Here, Hear! Emerging from this year’s NAIDOC theme, Art

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www.bettgallery.com.au Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart, 7000, TAS 03 6231 6511 Mon to Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 8 July—30 July An Elemental Persistence Kelly Austin 8 July—30 July A Hopeful Mirage Amber

www.ace.gallery Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End) Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8211 7505 Tue to Sat 11am–4pm. 4 June—13 August Skin Shade Night Day Allison Chhorn Skin Shade Night Day is the 2022 Porter Street Commission exhib

www.artcollectivewa.com.au 2/565 Hay Street, Cathedral Square, Perth, WA 6000 [Map 19] 08 9325 7237 Wed to Fri 11am–4pm, Sat 12noon–4pm, or by appointment. 25 June—23 July Paintings 2021–2022 Cathy Blanchflower Organic abstract paintings which explor

www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870 08 8951 1122 Daily 10am–4pm. 17 June—14 August SIXTY The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary A celebration of ceramics and sixty years of a publication dedicated t