Art Guide Australia

The second I saw Michael Cook’s latest photographic series Fake—an image from which adorns our current cover—I was stunned. It’s not just their impeccable staging, or their near-surreal blend of high materialism against the endurance of Country, or t

SOPHIA CAI is a Melbourne-based curator, arts writer, public programmer and greyhound enthusiast. She is particularly interested in Asian art history, the intersection between contemporary art and craft, as well as feminist methodologies and communit

Atmosphere Clarice Beckett Geelong Gallery 1 April—9 July Working en plein air on a small scale, the modernist, tonalist painter Clarice Beckett (1887 – 1935) possessed a remarkable ability to capture not only the likeness of a place, but also how it

The Seed: Sophie Lampert Orange Regional Gallery 25 March—7 May Sophie Lampert uses art to centre the extraordinary lives and work of prominent women, from science to art to ancient times. As curator Lucy Stranger puts it, Lampert creates “soft sculp

Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith Queensland Art Gallery 4 March—30 July When curator Reuben Keenan began envisioning an exhibition of artistic exchanges between the Philippines and Australia, he not only imagined the showing of art, but a display that

Clare Longley ReadingRoom 24 March–22 April In 1966, American pop artist Robert Indiana created Love, an iconic image in which the word “love” appears in red letters on a blue and green background. Since then, it’s been reproduced ad nauseam in paint

Blue Skirt Waltz Madeline Simm CHAUFFEUR 9 March—1 April “The fog that keeps my words at bay is a sieve, and the colours move through it.” As Madeline Simm poetically explains, her practice interconnects her meandering thoughts with swathing applicat

The Arrangements: Assembling Nature Catherine Truman Carrick Hill 1 March—28 May Gardens tell us a lot about the natural world and the ways in which humans respond to and shape their surroundings. Through the making of gardens, social concerns become

Prayer James Webb Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Until 9 March When James Webb launched his multi-channel installation Prayer in Capetown in 2000, he had no inkling of the enduring scale it might achieve. Back then, working in advertising, he was

Black Sky Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (for Perth Festival) 11 February—22 April The night sky tells many stories. Stretching above us, it is a witness to life and history. For Indigenous Australians, it is also a symbol of sovereignty—the black on th

Geoffrey Bartlett Australian Galleries Melbourne 7—25 March Geoffrey Bartlett’s new exhibition at Australian Galleries Melbourne sees the renowned sculptor’s career, in many ways, come full circle. Bartlett’s first ever exhibition, in Melbourne in 19

Botanically Porcelain: The Third Installment: Seed Dawn Beasley Northern Centre for Contemporary Art 1 March—30 April Last year, Darwin-based artist Dawn Beasley debuted one thousand ceramic pods for the Australian Ceramic Triennale in Alice Springs.

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