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.

A Note From the Editor January/February 2025

Art Guide Australia

Issue 153 Contributors

Previews

Albury/Bungambrawatha

Hobart/Nipaluna

Bendigo/Dja Dja Wurrung Country

Lismore/Bundjalung Country

Brisbane/Meanjin

Melbourne/Naarm

Alice Springs/Mparntwe

Ipswich/Coodjirar

Adelaide/Kaurna Country

Object Lessons • For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.

Threads of History • The intricate paintings of Nusra Latif Qureshi remake and reroute imperial narratives and trace the borders of the shifting self.

Home Truths • Material concerns such as housing can determine an artist’s wellbeing and sense of possibility—an idea that is often overlooked by romantic ideas of art making that are out of sync with our current reality. How can artists navigate a society in which reliable shelter is elusive? And can art itself help us reimagine what it means to achieve secure footing in an increasingly volatile world? Jo Higgins investigates.

Windows to the World: A Conversation with Glen O’Malley

Sandra Black Studio

Altered States • The Future & Other Fictions, a landmark exhibition at ACMI, reflects both the cultural forces that determine our reality and the power of imagining our world anew.

Life in Technicolour • Tongan legends and pop culture heroes face off in the work of Telly Tuita, an artist whose freewheeling visual language articulates the light and shade of experience and the multiple selves we contain.

WAYS OF SEEING

Maternal Inheritance • Carol Jerrems’ intimate and revealing portraits of women are a touchstone for a generation of writers and photographers. For Josephine Mead, they also galvanise the power—and limits—of feminist legacy five decades on.

Different Strokes • The paintings of Ethel Carrick—whose legacy is being celebrated via a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia—offer distinctive and poignant lessons in seeing the world.

A–Z Exhibitions Victoria

A–Z Exhibitions New South Wales

A–Z Exhibitions Queensland

A–Z Exhibitions Australian Capital Territory

A–Z Exhibitions Tasmania

A–Z Exhibitions South Australia

A–Z Exhibitions Western Australia

A–Z Exhibitions Northern Territory

Maps

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