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Art Guide Australia

July/August 2025
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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.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

A Note From the Editor • July/August 2025

Art Guide Australia

Issue 156 Contributors

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Scroll Play • Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.

20 QUESTIONS WITH Tara Marynowsky • Tara Marynowsky’s multidisciplinary practice is something of a cabinet of curiosities. From ghostly apparitions in watercolour and feminine interpolations on vintage postcards, to video works laboriously crafted through scratching 35mm film reels—as in her Coming Attractions series, which manipulated trailers of 90s romcoms—her approach to art making is imbued with a penchant for nostalgia and an unmistakable sense of humour. Ahead of her latest solo exhibition at Edwina Corlette Gallery, we asked Marynowsky 20 quick questions about collecting materials, art and film loves, and making room for surprises.

Shadow and Light • A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.

Studio Monica Rani Rudhar • Navigating the cultural complexities of (be)longing, loss and disconnection that have shaped her multi-racial identity, Monica Rani Rudhar’s practice is forged from personal archives, family stories and deep connections to her source material. Creating across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art, Rudhar is relishing the space and opportunities that being at Parramatta Artists Studios Granville, NSW has afforded her. Working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, which features upscaled sentimental pieces of jewellery in ceramics to dazzling effect, Rudhar reflects on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.

SETTING THE AGENDA • Artists communicate across space and time in the expansive inaugural exhibition at the newly renovated Potter Museum of Art.

To the Limit • In the cavernous spaces of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, the large-scale kinetic sculptures of Arcangelo Sassolino are teetering on the brink.

WRITTEN IN THE STARS • A landmark new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time.

THE LONG VIEW SILENT SPRING • I can’t think of an event in the recent history that has galvanised the country’s artistic community quite like the cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi’s Venice Biennale presentation. But, to me, the initial reactions—outrage, anger—explored in countless articles and social media posts haven’t yet found the language to articulate the complex forces that have led to this moment. Or what it means not just for freedom of expression in this country, but for the art that audiences are exposed to, now and in the future. Silent Spring, a reported essay by journalist Dee Jefferson, is the first in Art Guide’s new essay series The Long View, which charts the relationship between art and the wider world and creates space for the conversations we believe will continue to shape the...

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