Art Guide Australia

MICHAELA BEAR is an emerging writer and curator currently working at RMIT University in Naarm/Melbourne. She was assistant editor for the 2017 Honolulu Biennial and has written for a range of local and international publications including ArtAsiaPaci

People don’t talk enough about friendship in art. Words like ‘collaboration’ and ‘networks’ are used, but rarely friendship—and yet friendship is what has ultimately transpired between Nadia Hernandez and Jon Campbell, our cover artists for this issu

EDITOR AND PODCAST PRODUCER Tiarney Miekus ASSISTANT EDITOR Autumn Royal WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Minna Gilligan GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jack Loel DESIGN ASSISTANT Girivarshan Balasubramanian CONTRIBUTORS ISSUE #140 Michaela Bear, Andy Butler, B

Beating about the Bush Art Gallery of Ballarat 5 November—19 February 2023 In the 1884 painting A summer morning tiff by Australian Impressionist Tom Roberts, the artist centres the romanticism of a lone female figure (said to be Harriet McCubbin) we

Do Ho Suh Museum of Contemporary Art 4 November—26 February 2023 The shifting idea of home—and the word’s concurrent intangibility and pervasiveness—is at the heart of Do Ho Suh’s work. For over three decades, the prolific South Korean artist has exp

Bruce Thurrowgood Handmark Gallery 18 November—5 December To live in the isolated town of Bicheno, on the east coast of Tasmania, is to have a profound relationship with water. For the painter Bruce Thurrowgood, a resident of this settlement that fac

Lydia Wegner Arc One Gallery 30 November—28 January 2023 The illusory assemblages that Lydia Wegner makes and photographs on her studio tabletop are “quite intimate little constructions”, she says. They’re abstractions made from familiar, everyday ma

Gamepieces Nalini Malani Art Gallery of South Australia 5 November—22 January 2023 Rhana Devenport, director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, first met artist Nalini Malani in India when Devenport was conducting research for the 1996 Asia Pacif

NURA: Deep Listening Cement Fondu 15 October—10 December The practice of deep listening is at the foundation of the exhibition NURA—which is also the Dharawal word for Country. Through sound and sculpture, Indigenous artists salllvage (AKA Rowan Sava

And now, The Plague Teo Treloar Grafton Regional Gallery Until 13 November Teo Treloar Olsen Gallery 30 November—17 December In early 2020, just before Covid-19 hit globally, Teo Treloar went on a research trip to New York to observe 17th-century Dut

Tracing Gondwana Midland Junction Arts Centre 19 November—18 February 2023 It’s imperative to contemporary art and life that exhibitions draw attention to our climate crisis—and artists are increasingly addressing the issue in innovative and impassio

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