Issue 16
| September 4, 2011
Featuring
Sam Leach
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
John Olsen
Also Inside
Emily Ferretti
Szabolcs Veres
Julie Harris
Bernard Ollis
Barney Ellaga
Bronek Kozka
Plus Essays, Reviews, News
Deborah Hart :: Fred Williams
Simon Ives :: Painting Restoration
Peter Simpson :: Michael Shannon
Rodney James :: James Smeaton


For most painters, tape has a prophylactic function. Stuck temporarily onto a canvas (or a doorframe, for that matter), tape protects what lies beneath or...
Deborah Halpern’s studio is engulfed with works in progress occasionally dispersed with other images and sculptures that illicit happiness. In the vast double window space,...
I recently left my home-studio on the Vaucluse clifftops in Sydney, with the whale and ocean views, and have set up a new studio in...
On a research trip to see the disused Mayday Hills Asylum, where Mike Parr will create his video projection on the exterior of the Birches...
The exhibition opens with paintings that place Done in conversation with some of the great names of art history. He has always been something of...
The art critic Harold Rosenberg (1906–78) asserted that “A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.” He continued, “The...
Museums and galleries often attempt to decolonise their collections and embrace diversity, equity and accessibility by ditching the elevated status of the artist. Yet artist...
Kaldor Public Art Project 38 is in the Naala Badu building (the term for “seeing waters” in the Gadigal language). Demand, as it happens, has...
Australia’s addiction to art prizes is difficult to comprehend. To the best of my knowledge, Australia has more art prizes per head of population than...