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.

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Issue 145 Contributors

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The Art of Restoration • Moving from Australia to New York in 1969, Virginia Cuppaidge is known for her internationally revered abstract paintings. She’s now living in Australia, unveiling a carefully restored, six-metre work at Sydney Contemporary.

Dream Flowers • Hiromi Tango is creating aesthetic pathways through trauma and illness, particularly long Covid, using her signature rainbow palette to centre gentleness, compassion and hope.

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Studio Isadora Vaughan

Galleries Go Green • From changing light bulbs to ending fossil fuel sponsorships, major Australian galleries and museums are attempting paths towards sustainability—but is this enough?

Art After Spectacle • Artist and poet Chunxiao Qu bends common language into absurd, funny and meaningful forms that are as forthright as the glow of her neon lights.

Scent of History • Justine Youssef’s art confronts histories of displacement, genocide and colonialism, alongside preserving the traditions of her Lebanese heritage—as her latest solo show attests.

Talking with Brendan Huntley • Whether painting, sculpting, or singing in garage-rock band Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Brendan Huntley’s practice has an energetic impulse. With art defined by vivid colours and patterns, he’s recently created various series centering motifs from eyes to butterflies, alongside a collaboration with Melbourne fashion house Alpha60. With an exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, Huntley reflects on his latest paintings and the nature of creating.

Comment Working Title • What happens when the starving artist trope becomes all too real, alienating artists from their practice, health and happiness?

Posters on the Pulse • Since their radical rise in the 1970s, posters have been used by artists and activists for feminist, political, environmental and cultural issues. As a new exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery attests, today may be no different.

Creating Nature • At the Museum of New Art (Mona), two international artists are centering the sensory experiences of nature, from local materials to volcanic eruption.

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