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 March/April 2025

Art Guide Australia

Issue 154 Contributors

Perth/Boorloo

Brisbane/Meanjin

Sydney/Eora

Melbourne/Naarm

Canberra/Ngambri

Bendigo/Dja Dja Wurrung Country

Perth/Boorloo

Alice Springs/Mparntwe

Canberra/Ngambri

Hobart/Nipaluna

Mystery Road • Buoyed by rich feminist histories, the multifaceted work of Zanny Begg reveals the possibility of paths not taken and the way age-old legacies persist.

Shadow Hunting • The quietly evocative work of James Tylor reimagines imperial legacies and illuminates a hidden past.

Studio Consuelo Cavaniglia

Surface Tensions • The quietly evocative new paintings of Gregory Hodge are a lesson in the places where abstraction and figuration intersect.

Light Work • Amanda Bell’s poignant new commission for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts transforms the heaviness of history and unsettles hierarchies of place.

SITES UNSEEN • Equal parts monumental and fleeting, the sand sculptures of French artist Théo Mercier chart the histories—beyond our lines of vision—that a landscape reveals and conceals.

ACROSS THE TABLE • Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.

Through the Looking Glass • The glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly speak to the power and pitfalls of visual pleasure in an increasingly contested world.

Creature Comforts • Cats & Dogs, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, explores the ways that the relationships we share with our pets are a source of strangeness and intimacy. But for Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, it’s also an exercise in the power of seeing and being seen.

Flight Patterns • Shaped by the movement between histories and cultures, the work of Thaiborn, New Zealand/Aotearoa-raised artist Sorawit Songsataya draws on mystery and plurality as a means of knowing the world.

Narrative Flow • Existing in the space between ritual, performance and ceremony, the body-centred work of Latai Taumoepeau rewrites the stories that shape our perception of Oceania—while using ancient traditions to tackle our most urgent modern concerns.

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A–Z Exhibitions Australian Capital Territory

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