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 132 Contributors

A Note From the Editor

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Melbourne

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Perth

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Healesville

Our Botanical Worlds • From drawing with fossil fuel by-products, to creating art from historical botanical books, Caroline Rothwell looks at the increasingly complex relationship between humans and nature.

The Artist at Work • Writer Louise Martin-Chew visited Alair Pambegan at Aurukun in north Queensland, learning first-hand about the artist’s process and connection to Country.

Interview Mikala Dwyer • Vivid yet mysterious, Mikala Dwyer’s installations connect a range influences and curiosities including the mystical, occultism, constructivism, Dada, Bauhaus, memory and sexuality. Often using materials like textiles, plastic, plywood and plants, the artist creates highly experiential, affective spaces. With a four-decade practice, and a new exhibition on avian life, Dwyer talks about the mystical, daydreaming, and her process of ‘not-knowing’.

From the Desk of Cecily Crozier • Radical for 1940s Australia, the cover designs of arts and literary magazine A Comment are compelling examples of sparse modernism. But who is the woman behind them?

All the Ronnies

A Call to Arms Part II • Why aren’t more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in positions of power in the art world, and what needs to change? Wardandi (Nyoongar) Aboriginal woman and senior curator Clothilde Bullen explores these questions.

Studio Katy B Plummer

The Many Faces of Digital Art • After record-high international sales, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and digital art are now becoming mainstream—but how does this new world work? And is it working for Australian artists?

Surface Tensions • While much of Salote Tawale’s work is humorous on the surface, the artist is mining the tensions surrounding representation, colonialism, and her own cultural and personal histories.

Dancing with Dust Clouds • Aiming to “reclaim the agency of blindness,” Fayen d’Evie’s poetic and tactile work explores how we perceive art, in ways both physical and conceptual.

An Endless Affair • Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?

Taka Gin Co. • Taka means taste, from the Gunditjmara language of South West Victoria.

Inaugural exhibition! 8 Easey Pieces 1–24 July, 2021 • Nathan Beard Tim Bučković Lara Chamas Matilda Davis Matthew Harris Gail Hastings Sylvan Lionni Tama Sharman

A–Z Exhibitions Victoria

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...