Art Guide Australia

Art Guide Australia is both a print and digital magazine that showcases the finest contemporary art from Australia. Initially created as a resource for exhibitions and galleries nationwide, it has evolved into the go-to platform for exploring the newest features in the arts, including artist profiles, interviews, opinions, and studio visits, as well as our podcast.

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Colour mapping

Mar 27, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

The bright, distinctive patterns of Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson’s designs are a pioneering part of Australian fashion history. The creative partners took inspiration from figures such as Sonia Delaunay, the French artist and designer who co-founded Orphism, a movement that revolved around light and colour, with her husband Robert.
Bright lights big city: Australian artists and galleries at Hong Kong Art Week

Mar 27, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Chloé Wolifson

In 2013, the world’s most famous art fair, Art Basel, appended the name of an Asian city to its European one, establishing Art Basel Hong Kong (ABHK). That recognition of the commercial and cultural potential of this regional centre to a Western-centric art world has been realised, with the fair now attracting myriad satellite events to this globally significant hub.
The process of painting

Mar 25, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Sally Gearon

In 1938, during a low point in his life following divorce and eviction, the English painter Stanley Spencer embarked on his Christ in the Wilderness series, planning to create 40 paintings depicting, “how Christ may have spent each day, the great adventure all by himself with leaves and trees and mud and rabbits and rocks, just as I was having among two chairs, a bed, a fireplace and a table.” He only finished eight paintings, and started a ninth, but created many preparatory sketches,...
Joan Ross and the past imperfect

Mar 18, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Sally Gearon

Joan Ross has long used her multidisciplinary practice—which spans drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, video animation and installation—to explore the enduring legacy of colonialism in Australia, and how colonial systems are entrenched in our museums and collections. Vibrant scenes of flora and neon are used to attract a viewer, before quickly revealing a sinister world of Indigenous exploitation and environmental degradation.
Kate Vassallo draws the line

Mar 13, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Camilla Wagstaff

Kate Vassallo’s Ripple, her latest exhibition on now at Artereal Gallery in Sydney, holds special significance for both artist and space. For Vassallo, it marks a fitting end to a transformative 2024, during which the Canberra/Kamberri-based artist completed two major bodies of work years in the making. For Artereal, it’s a fitting end to the gallery’s nearly two-decade legacy of presenting bold, thought-provoking contemporary art, as it prepares to close its doors.
Another side of the story

Mar 13, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Frida Kahlo is one of the most mythologised figures in the world, enshrined in pop culture as a bright, colourful icon. But the Mexican artist’s life was much more complicated than that. “It’s inevitable that you get such a top-level story for somebody who has ascended to this demigod status,” says Lauren Ellis, curatorial manager at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Gregory Hodge looks beyond the surface

Feb 26, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Sally Gearon

I get the sense from Gregory Hodge’s latest series of paintings that they have been waiting to emerge for some time. The artist was once synonymous with bold abstraction, his signature gestural strokes exhibiting in galleries across the country and featuring on the cover of Amber Creswell Bell’s Australian Abstract (published by Thames and Hudson Australia in 2023).
Yona Lee’s object lessons

Feb 12, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

In Yona Lee’s work, the quotidian takes on new forms. Chairs, fans, lamps and beds are placed into looping metal structures, forcing a new perspective on an ordinary thing. Stainless steel tubes interlink with one another, seamlessly melding and twisting to create labyrinthine sculptural arrangements with no clear beginning or end. Lee’s site-specific works bring new dimensions to the spaces they exist in.
Family matters

Feb 12, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Shared Skin explores the concept of family through the lens of First Nations and culturally diverse artists. It’s a personal question for curator Rayleen Forester, who started thinking about it after starting a family of her own. “I’ve questioned what that structure looks like in art making, and how I navigate my profession as a parent,” she says.
William Robinson’s natural instincts

Jan 29, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

William Robinson is the only living Australian artist with a public gallery dedicated to his work. Since 2009, the William Robinson Gallery has held regular exhibitions showcasing the prolific Queensland artist’s oeuvre. The latest is Numinous, focusing on landscape painting. These works are largely from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, showing the natural world through Robinson’s careful eye. “He never went out to landscapes that he didn’t understand,” says curator Vanessa Van Ooyen.