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

Art Guide Australia

Issue 157 Contributors

Launceston/Stoney Creek Country

Halls Gap/Budja Budja

Alice Springs/Mparntwe

Canberra/Ngambri Country

Alice Springs/Mparntwe

Brisbane/Meanjin

Perth/Boorloo

Newcastle/Awabakal Country

Cairns/Gimuy

Perth/Boorloo

Poetry in Motion • In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry.

A Glass Act • Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.

Unseen Connections • An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School Gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.

Studio Savanhdary Vongpoothorn

LIFE CYCLES • The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.

Figuring it Out • A search for beauty is behind Skin tight, the first solo exhibition in Australia for the American artist Tschabalala Self, whose works seek to alter the power dynamic between viewer and subject.

Seeing Double • A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.

Life Sized • Embodied, the first iteration of Arts Project Australia’s new exhibition series, Limitless, sees artists Bronwyn Hack and Mark Smith create their most ambitious works yet, with the body at the centre of it all.

20 QUESTIONS WITH Natasha Walsh • Natasha Walsh is an alchemist and artist, capturing the evolving nature of the human condition. In her 2024 show, Hysteria, Walsh challenged the historical and political structures underpinned by the exploitation of women, consciously collaborating with her subjects to defy power imbalances found within the traditional artist-muse relationship. Ahead of her solo exhibition, The Window at N.Smith Gallery, we asked Walsh 20 questions about her daily rituals, how she finds her state of flow and expressing emotions beyond the human form.

ABOUT FACE • The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists.

Object Lessons • For contemporary jeweller Kyoko Hashimoto, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia marks a shift in her approach to materials and method, with a renewed focus on sustainability.

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