Abstract artist Kathryn Dolby crafts colourful scenes inspired by nature, the beautiful landscape of the Northern Rivers, NSW on Bundjalung Country feeding into her practice, where she lives with her partner Steve, and daughters Freda, five, and Leni-Jean, one.

Working from his studio in rural Western Australia, Perth-born artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah explores life through his ‘magic realism’ style. Animals, mythology, and family history translate into artworks set in otherworldly installations that immerse the viewer. Abdullah offers a refreshing and honest take on his life as an artist, plus raising his three children in the bush.

After the horrific bushfire season of 2019-20, conceptual artist Tony Albert invited audiences to rejuvenate the landscape differently. One that considered the effects of colonisation in both the environment and for those who had lived here for thousands of years. Titled ‘Healing Land, Remembering Country’, it was commissioned for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, inside a greenhouse on Cockatoo Island (a former prison). Albert asked audiences to write an alternative narrative for children and young people who are incarcerated in Australia onto paper filled with Kangaroo grass seeds, before being planted back into the earth as a healing, holistic rejuvenation project.

With their fluttering and textile-like quality, Jess Sellinger’s ceramics are full of enveloping folds. Evocative of life, they are transient, fragile at heart, imperfect yet deliciously smooth.

“. . . what it means to breathe . . .” Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) summer blockbuster exhibition, Air, brings together an expansive collection of works by over thirty international and Australian artists, each who resist, disturb, and challenge notions of ecological harmony.

Located in the bayside Melbourne suburb of Elwood, The White House is a modernist makeover of a Californian bungalow.

Working predominantly with oil on canvas, but often exploring the expanse of different mediums such as alkyds, wax medium, marble dust and acrylics, Canberra-based artist Joel Arthur creates bodies of work in dialogue with one another – setting anchor points within each painting that oscillate between abstraction and landscapes.

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For Sydney-based Other Architects directors David Neustein and Grace Mortlock, every project offers the chance for deeper thinking, exploring angles away from the default. They apply this everywhere, from residential homes and apartment blocks to cemeteries, gardens and art installations.

In the beautiful country of Aotearoa New Zealand, the landscape is celebrated through design that honours the environment and the culture that takes care of it. We looked at four businesses — from handcrafted rugs and compostable packaging to locally designed and made furniture, lighting, and objects.

There is no hiding in the hyperreal. This Art at Home edit reveals eight artists who use intense detail. First coined by French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, hyperreal art expands on notions from Hyperreality — a term that evokes the symbolism of life through representation in the arts. Through these artists, we explore how notes of surrealism, landscapes, and still life feed through hyperreal art to capture a moment of time, an emotion, or a memory central to the human experience.

Surrealism and art are at play with perception for these eight artists, offering alternate ways of viewing the world. The Surrealist art movement developed in the 1920s as artists tapped into the power of the unconscious and dreams — capturing a sense of haunting and mystery. Led by iconic names such as Salvador Dalí, Andre Breton, and René Magritte, today, contemporary artists put a spin on age-old themes with modern technology, social media, and living in a time of mass information.

Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, looks to tomorrow in a sensitive reimagining of speculative futures. The exhibition is alive, with emotions, feeling, and in sculptural form – activating the senses through textile artworks, sculptures, sound, video, smell, poetry, and documented performance.

From food to style, the Christmas table is centred on bringing people together through memories and delicious dishes – a tablescape can set the mood and intention, evocative of nostalgia and new traditions.

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From reinterpreted landscapes to embellished surface texture, we explore bold abstraction through seven different artists.

From iconic art agency Jacky Winter comes Solid Lines – the first illustration art agency solely for supporting First Nation Australian artists.

In this Art at Home feature, we explore ‘Greyscale’ at the height of dramatic art and how the depths of black and white translate through interiors.

Carefully and gently placed on the landscape, ERYE.WAY is two cabins —Yambara and Maldhi— on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

“I felt owned by the landscape and always at home . . .” The colour-filled paintings and sculptures by Sydney-based Amber Hearn are reflective of her Annandale studio, where the artist welcomes in a kaleidoscope of hues. The composition and vividness stem from Hearn’s transient upbringing, travelling around the world with her family, living in Papua New Guinea and regional New South Wales. As such, the works transport the viewer to another place and time, evocative of memory and emotion.