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 130 Contributors

A Note From the Editor

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New Australian Art to Believe In • Now in its third iteration, The National 2021 is about care, hope, storytelling, and triumph through adversity.

The Women Propelling the Arts • From individuals to collectives, female philanthropy is a major driving force of the Australian arts. But who are these women? And why don’t we know more about them?

Janet Laurence • For three decades Janet Laurence has been creating artworks that consider nature in a multitude of ways: alchemy, fragility, care and empathy. Creating highly experiential installations, in recent years Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature.

Light in the Dark • As Mona celebrates its 10th anniversary, the gallery is strengthening its connection with Tasmanian locals and harking back to its beginning: a private art collection.

The Rise and Rise of Mary Quant • When British designer Mary Quant led a 1960s fashion revolution, she would forever change how women dressed.

Art As Action

Exercising the Funny Muscle • One of Australia’s renowned illustrators, Oslo Davis, gives us a glimpse into the motivations, meaning and humour behind a recent collection of drawings.

Studio Deborah Kelly

The Spiritual Modernist • Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.

Plotted Histories • Mapping data from conflict zones and disaster areas, Stanislava Pinchuk creates art that reflects upon trauma, memory and landscape.

It’s in the Bag—Quite Literally • Despite the barriers of international travel, New York artist Robin Frohardt is bringing her ecological art installation—centred on plastic bags—to Adelaide.

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 Gallery Road, Powerhouse Road, Crown Street, Elizabeth Street, Clarence Street, Glebe Point Road, Darley Street, Circular Quay West, Hickson Road, First Street, Dean Street, Jersey Road, Watson Road, Goodhope Street, Gosbell Street, Observatory Hill, Military Road, Edgeworth David Avenue, Abbott Road, Riley Street, Balfour Street, Blaxland Road, Myahgah Road, Old South Head Road

A–Z Exhibitions Queensland • Brookes Street, Macalister Street, Brunswick Street, Doggett Street, Hasking Street, Russell Street, Bundall Road,...