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.

Art Guide Australia

Issue 129 Contributors

A Note From the Editor

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Becoming Earthbound • How Lisa Sammut’s focus has shifted from stargazing to soil.

Forms of Intuition • From towering freeway sculpture to tiny glass-encased dioramas, Louise Paramor’s distinctive assemblages evoke both familiarity and wonder.

Maggie Hensel-Brown • The intricate art of lace-making might bring to mind your grandmother’s tea-table, but it’s long been used to tell grand tales of war and passion, gods and kings. For contemporary lacemaker Maggie Hensel-Brown, this labour-intensive medium can give weight to seemingly banal moments of daily life. Editor Anna Dunnill spoke with the Sydney-based artist about the underground world of lace guilds, and channeling female rage.

No Easy Answers • Unflinching, humorous, insistent: Gordon Bennett’s work speaks for itself in this landmark retrospective.

Rosie Deacon

Listen With Your Whole Body • Sonic artists reveal the rewards of deep listening, reshaping our perception of place.

Family Practice • Children can radically alter how artists approach their work—and some even find themselves collaborating with their kids.

The Past Imperfect • For Megan Evans, the past isn’t the province of history books. It’s the sum of complicated forces that shape the present day. For the last three decades, the artist—whose ancestors were from Scotland and Ireland, and who was married to the late Indigenous artist and activist Les Griggs—has made images, installations and sculpture that reflect on her role as the descendent of colonisers. PARLOUR, which won the 2019 Footscray Art Prize, shows viewers how power is upheld in domestic spaces and benign signifiers. Elsewhere, her ongoing Keloid project—referencing the term for a scar that grows beyond the original wound—challenges the privileges enshrined by whiteness while untangling the complexities of living on stolen land. “I’m interested in how one takes personal responsibility for these things,” says Evans. Here, she shares the stories behind five of her most compelling works.

On the Ordinariness and Extraordinariness of This Thing We Call Art • Finding works of art in chores, cooking, and care.

Tiny Cellular Worlds • Inside the poetic microcosms of Angela Valamanesh.

Flow of Language, Flow of Life • Why Joi T. Arcand wants you to learn the Cree language.

A–Z Exhibitions Victoria • James Street, McClelland Drive, Flinders Lane, Gertrude Street, Sturt Street, Federation Square, Dodds Street, Punt Road, Rokeby Street, Lyttleton Street, Dunns Road, Nicholson Street, Willis Street, Abbotsford Street, Little Malop Street, Tinning Street, Cureton Avenue, Alma Road, Langford Street, Lydiard Street North, Albert Street, Horseshoe Bend, Bourke Street, Whitehorse Road, Vere Street, Barkers Road, Roberts Avenue, Templestowe Road, Church Street

A–Z Exhibitions New South Wales • Albermarle Street, Soudan Lane, McLachlan Avenue, Blackfriars Street, Flood Street, Darling Street, Oxford Street, Art...