Art Guide Australia

EDITOR Tiarney Miekus EDITOR Anna Dunnill EDITOR Tracey Clement WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Minna Gilligan GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jack Loel DESIGN ASSISTANT Dylan Reilly ACCOUNTS MANAGER Linda Redman PUBLISHERS Graham Meadowcroft Kim Butterworth ■

CLAUDIA CHINYERE AKOLE is an exhibiting artist, illustrator, cartoonist, designer, animator, and educator based in Sydney, Australia (Gadigal and Wangal land). She works as a graphic designer in TV broadcast, as a freelance illustrator, and creates c

Throughout this year, while our minds became magnets for Covid-19 news, the artist Guy Warren, at the age of 99, was doing what he’s always done: rising from bed at 8am, going to his home studio in Greenwich, Sydney, and continuing the important work

Streeton Arthur Streeton Art Gallery of New South Wales 7 November—14 February 2021 www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au It’s extraordinary to discover from Wayne Tunnicliffe, head curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, that there are

Used Peta Kruger JamFactory, GalleryTwo 9 October–22 November www.jamfactory.com.au Peta Kruger is familiar with waste anxiety, that stress phenomenon that implicates all of us in the crisis of over-consumption and our growing landfill scourge. The j

Big Numbers Arryn Snowball Nicholas Thompson Gallery 2 December—20 December www.nicholasthompsongallery.com.au Berlin-based Australian painter Arryn Snowball has recently worked with poets, dancers, and musicians. Collaboration is intrinsic to his cr

Mood Mirror Meredith Turnbull Daine Singer 21 October—14 November www.dainesinger.com Making art, says Australian-born philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, is excessive. Grosz imagines how art existed before human influence, drawing upon things like birdsong

On Our Country Spinifex Artists Japingka Gallery 6 November–21 December www.japingkaaboriginalart.com Paintings by Spinifex Artists are embedded with records of constellations, creation stories, landscape, fauna, and major songlines of the Great Vict

he Motorcycle Gallery of Modern Art 28 November—26 April 2021 www.qagoma.qld.gov.au For better or worse, motorcycles have, over the decades, given art and entertainment some pivotal, iconic moments. Marlon Brando’s adventures on his Triumph Thunderbi

DESIGN Canberra 2020 Various locations 9 November—29 November www.designcanberrafestival.com.au The nation’s capital is already a thriving hub for those interested in contemporary craft and design, but every year DESIGN Canberra ups the ante with an

we need privacy guys here too Marian Tubbs USC Art Gallery 20 November–16 January 2021 www.usc.edu.au/art-gallery Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is we

Safe Space Devonport Regional Gallery 2 October–15 November www.devonportgallery.com The medium of sculpture is always, to some extent, an inquiry into the nature and possibility of space. What distinguishes Safe Space, a touring exhibition arriving

Thinking Business Barbara Cleveland Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 9 October—14 November www.goulburnregionalartgallery.com.au A few years ago, artist Mike Parr mentioned his encounters with Barbara Cleveland. “She used to sit at the end of my bed and

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