Australian art magazine published since 1963
Art & Australia Pty Ltd is a biannual digital magazine, the country's longest-running art journal, since 1963. Art & Australia (now Art + Australia) relaunched a new digital publishing platform in August 2022.[1]
History
Art & Australia was first published by Sam Ure Smith in May 1963. It followed Sam's father Sydney Ure Smith's publication "Art in Australia", which was in print 1916–42.
From 1963 to 1983, Mervyn Horton was the magazine's founding editor. He was followed by Elwyn Lynn, Jennifer Phipps and Leon Paroissien, Dinah Dysart, Hannah Fink and Laura Murray Cree. In 2003, Eleonora Triguboff became Editor/Publisher of ARTAND Australia, former editors include Laura Murray-Cree, Claire Armstrong, Katrina Schwarz, Michael Fitzgerald and Genevieve O'Callaghan. The magazine has also involved many distinguished editorial advisers.
Since 2004, winners of the ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award – awarded to Australian and New Zealand emerging artists – have appeared on the magazine's back cover. Since 2008, the magazine has partnered to host the Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program. ARTAND Australia also regularly collaborates with artists and designers to produce Artist Editions and Artist Projects.
In August 2013, the print magazine celebrated fifty years and its 200th issue. The 201st issue – volume 51, number 1 in August 2013 – featured a redesign by Melbourne-based design firm Fabio Ongarato Design.
Art & Australia continues to evolve in the exciting though turbulent world of converging media and art. In 2014 Art & Australia launched a new website as a platform to share their archive of over fifty years and daily news. At this time they decided to migrate to a fully online presence and increase their focus on art book publication with Dott Publishing, an imprint of Art & Australia.
In 2015, Eleonora Triguboff donated Art & Australia to the Victorian College of Arts. Triguboff's ARTAND Foundation retained Dott Publishing.[2] From 2015 Art & Australia has been published as Art + Australia. In the period between 2015-2021 Art + Australia published a biannual, thematic issues that charted the geopolitical conditions of contemporary artistic practice. Alongside the magazine Art + Australia ran an online platform of art criticism and commentary, alongside a book imprint.
In 2022 Art + Australia shifted to a digital publication with biannual publication of the latest discussions, criticism and reflections on contemporary artistic practice from Australia and abroad. The online magazine is supplemented by a book imprint and a range of other publishing activities.
Editors
Past
- Mervyn Horton
- Elwyn Lynn
- Jennifer Phipps and Leon Paroissien
- Dinah Dysart
- Hannah Fink
- Laura Murray Cree
- Claire Armstrong
- Eleonora Triguboff
- Katrina Schwarz
- Michael Fitzgerald
- Edward Colless
- Tessa Laird
Present
Editor-in-chief | Su Baker
Editor | Jeremy Eaton
Editorial Advisers
Past
Present
- Su Baker
- Anthony White
- Christopher Marshall
- Claire Roberts
- Anne Marsh
- Janelle Evans
- Natalie King
- Charlotte Day
- Kit Messham-Muir
- Wulan Dirgantoro
- Edward Colless
- Sean Lowry
Selected contributors
Selected cover artists
Archive
Past issues of ARTAND Australia are available online in digital format on payment of a subscription.[3]
Subscribers can access more than 200 issues of Australia's definitive art journal, ARTAND Australia, a unique resource for schools, universities and art lovers alike. Fully text searchable, the ARTAND Australia Archive allows you to immerse yourself more than 50 years of art history while keeping up to date with the latest developments in contemporary art.
Projects
ARTAND Australia actively engages with artmaking through Artist Editions, Artist Projects, Cover Commissions and Education Collaborations. The magazine has worked with artists Louise Weaver; Nell; Vanila Netto and fashion designers Romance Was Born; Locust Jones; Patrick Pound; and Juan Davila. Other projects have involved working with organisations such as the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation and The Red Room Company.
ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
Established in 2004, the ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award supports artists in the first five years of practice with a critical text and the illustration of their artwork on the magazine's back cover and gatefold. The ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award is administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts and supported by Credit Suisse Private Banking.
Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program
The Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program is a selective mentorship program that developed from a 2005 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, initiative. It pairs four emerging writers with leading arts specialists each year, offering participants the opportunity to develop their writing practice, publish their works and gain further insight into the field of contemporary art writing, featuring their work in the pages of ARTAND Australia and through Gertrude Contemporary's Studio 12 exhibition program.
Books
Art & Australia Pty Ltd is the publishing house that prints ARTAND Australia, with Dott Publishing the arm that produces contemporary art books and artist collaborative books. These include Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand (2008) and the 2012 Del Kathryn Barton and Oscar Wilde book, The Nightingale and the Rose. Other titles include "Chinese Zodiac" (2014) that presents a dynamic new series of artworks created by twelve of Australia's leading contemporary artists, with an introduction by Benjamin Law and "Tony Albert" (2015) the first comprehensive survey of the multidisciplinary oeuvre of the artist. In 2015 Dott Publishing released a collaboration with Hong Kong born Melbourne based artist Kate Beynon, the title "An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale" marks the second iteration of the Dott Tales series, following on from The Nightingale and the Rose.
Art + Australia has published and co-published eight books since 2015.
Notes and references
External links
