Issue 28
| November 11, 2014
A Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition, the issue is packed with program and exhibition highlights about the big event. On the cover is Melbourne-based Emily Floyd who talks us through her studio practice and what influences her large scale installation works ahead of a survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
NEWS
Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Watters Gallery 50th Anniversary
UPFRONT
MELBOURNE ART FAIR by Lucy Stranger
COVER FEATURE
EMILY FLOYD by Bridget Macleod
PROFILES
BELINDA FOX by Lucy Stranger
FIONA PARDINGTON by Owen Craven
NOEL MCKENNA by Gregory O’Brien
PETER COOLEY by William Sturrock
FRANK NOWLAN by Glenn Barkley
JOHN MAWURNDJUL by Colleen O’Reilly
GAO RONG by Luise Guest
PREVIEW
Arthur Boyd by Steve Lopes
Hanging up the Brushes by Trevor Weekes
The Soft Approach by A.J.Edwards
Process: Rod Holdaway
Process: Terry Matassoni
Process: Hobie Porter
Book Reviews
Preview: Pia Johnson
Preview: TarraWarra Biennial
Preview: Bodies In Space
View Australia
Discovery: Michelle Cawthorn
As an Italian immigrant, who came to Australia as a young boy, Zofrea’s understanding and connection with the Australian landscape has been a lifelong journey....
For a short time in the early seventies, boring old Sydney Town had a place to go that fitted Bruce’s vision. After living and successfully...
The Wama Foundation has nurtured significant momentum for its ambitious NCEA project over the past decade. In 2015 the foundation engaged Jan van Schaik, co-founder...
At his Leichhardt studio, Mason Kimber shows me a cache of photographs taken of a Perth nightclub, owned by Kimber’s father, in the 1980s and...
Through a complex and nuanced investigation of movement and time, the photographic work of U.S. still-and-moving image artist Sam Contis, seductively unfolds across distinct landscapes....
The year 2024 is a special year as Australia somewhat confidently readies for the approaching Olympic Games in Paris. The national society feels it has...
You studied with the Polish born painter, Professor Maximilian Feuerring from 1956 to 1959. Was that at an art school? I was eighteen and I...
Presenting an eighty-year art history of sixteen east Arnhem Land Yolngu clans represented by the Yirrkala Art Centre Buku Larrnggay Mulka, it recalls the Art...
Divided into ten thematic sections, the curatorial brief (according to the NGV’s online publicity) is to place “emphasis on the thoughts and observations of the...