About Us

Beautiful Bizarre Art Magazine

Launched in 2013, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is an international art magazine based in Australia.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is packed full of insightful and inspiring articles and interviews with the best emerging and mid-career visual artists from around the world, intimate conversations between artists about life, love and art, prominent curators share their personal art wish-lists, studio visits, collector interviews, our Instagram community feature and much more! If you love art, you’ll love Beautiful Bizarre Magazine!

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is: A voice, a platform, a community of over 2M readers, fans!

As a leader and advocate for the arts, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine champions emerging and mid-career artists. In the 13 years since our launch, we have become not just a carefully curated print and digital art magazine; Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is a devoted web and social media community and a multi-faceted international brand supporting artists and art businesses.

Beautiful Bizarre Exhibitions

Since initiating its physical exhibition program in 2015, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has translated its editorial advocacy into tangible curatorial programming. To date, the publication has curated twenty-one major exhibitions across commercial galleries and public museums worldwide.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has proudly presented the work of hundreds of artists, working across diverse styles and mediums to communities and collectors in Australia, The United States, Asia and Europe, with exciting new exhibitions scheduled each year. Institutional partners and curators seeking to collaborate on upcoming exhibitions, or collectors who would like to join the publication’s VIP collectors list are invited to direct inquiries to enquiries@beautifulbizarre.net.

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize

Furthering our mission, in 2018 we launched the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, an annual non-acquisitive international Art Prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. The Art Prize inspires creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and helps careers grow through funding and increased global exposure of their work to galleries, collectors and media. Entries open each year in February. For more details please visit the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize website.

Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory

In 2024 we also launched the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory which further serves our mission to champion emerging and mid-career artists and photographers by leveraging our global influence. The Artist Directory is the premier platform for discovering and connecting with the most exceptional, innovative, and skilled artists and photographers from around the world. Whether you are a curator, gallery director, client, collector, artist needing inspiration, or writer for the arts media, this curated list of artists and photographers presents some of the best work from around the world.

The Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory is a powerful tool for artists looking to grow their visibility, and connect with clients, curators and collectors. If you would you like to join our curated list of the best artists and photographers from around the world, find out how to become a member today, click here.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is a vast and highly engaged community that connects and inspires like-minded passionate people.

Available worldwide with a total reach in the 10’s of millions and a truly engaged audience, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is uniquely tailored to promote artists, designers, makers, original and print galleries, artistic supplies manufacturers and distributors, cultural event promoters, Arts colleges and universities, and producers or distributors of unique and beautiful goods.

Artists and photographers are discovered and explored on the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine website daily, along with previews and writes ups profiling amazing shows and exhibitions from around the world.

For advertising and partnership inquiries click or email advertising@beautifulbizarre.net

Achievements, Impact, and Contributions

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine serves as a vital bridge between the margins and the mainstream, providing contemporary figurative and representational artists working across diverse styles and mediums with a shared international home. More broadly, it offers a sustained challenge to narrow historical definitions of serious contemporary art. Through its work, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has expanded the space available for technically rigorous and emotionally resonant art, driving a cultural shift in how representational and figurative artists are recognised, supported, and celebrated.

A Platform for Artists Who Do Not Always Fit the Canon

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s core achievement is its sustained advocacy for artists whose work is technically accomplished, emotionally charged, narrative, surreal, symbolic, strange, beautiful, dark, fantastical, or otherwise difficult to categorize within conventional contemporary art categories. It provides emerging and mid-career artists working outside narrowly defined institutional tastes with vital opportunities for serious editorial attention, professional validation, and international discovery.

A Counterweight to Narrow Definitions of Contemporary Art

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has significantly broadened the conversation about what contemporary art encompasses. By placing diverse styles and mediums side by side, it directly challenges the notion that serious contemporary art must reject beauty, figuration, craft, accessibility, or emotional immediacy. This intervention enriches the language of the art world, fosters a more generous aesthetic taste, and brings critical attention to artists who operate between traditional categories.

A Pathway from Online Discovery to Real-World Opportunity

Through its curated exhibitions and the annual Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine successfully transforms online visibility into tangible career opportunities. The Art Prize provides representational artists with crucial validation and exposure in sectors where they are often underrepresented, including commercial galleries and museums.

A Vibrant Global Community

Beyond being a publication, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has cultivated an active global community. It serves as a meeting point for artists, collectors, curators, galleries, writers, and art lovers who share an appreciation for imaginative, technically refined, and emotionally resonant work. Rather than remaining passive consumers, this audience forms an interconnected network where artists connect with peers, collectors discover new talent, and galleries encounter exceptional artists beyond local or institutional circuits.

An Archive and Cultural Record

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine functions as a vital living archive for a major movement in contemporary figurative and representational art. Across its print and digital editions, and websites, it systematically documents artists and aesthetics that might otherwise remain scattered across social media feeds, gallery listings, and private studios.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine offers artists the permission to be taken seriously on their own terms. It reassures artists that their artistic language matters, their audiences exist, and sustainable careers can be built without sacrificing the unique qualities that define their work.

Instilling Confidence and Legitimacy

One of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s most profound impacts is psychological. For artists whose work is beautiful yet strange, technically rigorous yet emotionally lush, or commercial yet deeply personal, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine offers artists the permission to be taken seriously on their own terms. It reassures artists that their artistic language matters, their audiences exist, and sustainable careers can be built without sacrificing the unique qualities that define their work.

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