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.

In this issue:

A new painting by Gregory Hodge commands the cover of the March/April issue of Art Guide, which explores how the past surfaces in the present in unexpected ways. In a longform essay, Lee Tran Lam explores how the age-old relationship between food and art is galvanising a new generation of chefs and artists. Jo Higgins considers the work of Zanny Begg, whose installations are animated by social history. And award-winning Noongar writer Claire G. Coleman interviews Amanda Bell, whose new PICA commission draws attention to the building’s colonial foundations—with playful and beguiling results.

Elsewhere, writer Briony Downes interviews the French sculptor Théo Mercier, whose epic sand sculptures are now on display at Mona and Rayleen Forester reflects on the work of Tongan artist Latai Taumoepeau, whose latest body-centred performance turns towards the ocean, drawing on an ancient choral ritual to reimagine ecological care.