Mythra Schwartz’s painting Small Plates (2026) inhabits the cover of this issue of Art Guide Australia. As Camilla Wagstaff writes, Schwartz is one of a new generation of artists whose practices reflect a broader cultural shift, with a focus on intimate, everyday scenes taking on heightened significance in the wake of global precarity and escalating digital immersion.

The domestic sphere is also the focus of The Secret Landscape: On Not Pleasing Your Mother. Tiarney Miekus speaks with the writer of this inventive new book, Clara Brack—daughter of artists Helen Maudsley and John Brack—about exploring the cost of family secrets and the slippery terrain between public and private.

A different kind of intergenerational reckoning is brought to the fore in Tony Albert’s major survey exhibition Not a Souvenir. Albert has long been fascinated by kitsch ‘Aboriginalia’, and this show at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings his work into conversation with the tourism and souvenir culture of Sydney’s Circular Quay.

Elsewhere, Timmah Ball reflects on the legacy of Rosalie Gascoigne, we meet the Vietnamese artist, activist and curator Trần Lương, and ask 20 Questions of Alfred Lowe.

This and more in the May/June 2026 print edition of Art Guide Australia. Subscribe today.