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.

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A Note From the Editor • May/June 2026

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Previews • A roundup of essential exhibitions, handpicked by our editors.

Sydney/Gadigal Country

Melbourne/Naarm

Sydney/Gadigal Country

Gold Coast/Yugambeh

Hobart/Nipaluna

Warrnambool/Peek Whurrong and Kirrae Whurrung Country

Adelaide/Kaurna Country

Rockhampton/Darumbal Country

Canberra/Ngambri Country

Among My Souvenirs • A survey exhibition of the work of Tony Albert brings the artist’s longstanding interest in kitsch ‘Aboriginalia’ into conversation with the tourism and souvenir culture of Sydney’s Circular Quay.

Lottie Consalvo

Painting a Moment • In the wake of economic, environmental and political precarity and escalating digital immersion, intimate, domestic and everyday spaces have taken on heightened significance. Camilla Wagstaff considers three painters whose practices feel symptomatic of a broader cultural shift.

Modes of Being • The first international survey exhibition of curator, artist, activist, archivist, and community worker Trần Lương introduces Perth audiences to this significant figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.

Alfred Lowe • Even though ceramicist Alfred Lowe grew up next door to the Araluen Arts Centre, visiting daily to use the water bubbler, he didn’t think he could be an artist. While always creative, it wasn’t until he stepped foot into the APY Collective that he understood that “anyone was capable of making art”—including himself. Now, ahead of his solo show, A GREAT AND WONDROUS SIGN at Hugo Michell Gallery, Lowe answers 20 questions on his first art love, his pivot to incorporating fibre into his practice, and how his connection to the Central Desert allows him to work intimately with landscape, reminding him of the beauty in imperfections.

Hidden Figures • An inventive new book by the writer Clara Brack—the daughter of John Brack and Helen Maudsley—explores the cost of family secrets and the slippery terrain between artists’ public and private selves.

The Shape of Things to Come • TarraWarra International 2026: System Release brings together ten artists whose work suggests possible ways through today’s turbulent times of wars, the climate crisis, and political instability.

BELONGING AND UN-BELONGING • On the occasion of an exhibition bringing together the work of Rosalie Gascoigne with that of three contemporary First Nations women artists, Timmah Ball considers Gascoigne’s relationship with land and place.

Instruments of Time • Handmade musical instruments from the past and present speak to each other across the decades, in the first Australian solo exhibition of New Zealand-born, London-based artist Sriwhana Spong.

A Garden of Memory • Five thousand kilometres, a convoy of spinifex, and a canvas full of memories. In this ambitious Biennale of Sydney exhibition, Yindjibarndi artists recreate their Country in a Western Sydney garden.

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A–Z Exhibition Listings • What to see in Melbourne and regional Victoria throughout May and June.

A–Z Exhibition Listings • What to see in Sydney...