Author Archives: Artist Profile
Flourishing Yellow Houses
I have been out and about in the market a lot buying things to equip our two Yellow Houses and am constantly moved by the sight of young, former Taliban fighters, who have been released from duty and are now trying to adjust to a life where they do not have to hide in caves […]
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Tagged Afghanistan, George Gittoes, Hellen Rose, Yellow House, Yellow House Jalalabad
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Artists for Médecins Sans Frontières
More than 60 Australian artists have donated works to be auctioned, with all proceeds from sales going towards international medical and humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). MSF is committed to supporting the people affected by the Gaza-Israel conflict. The auction page will be live from 8 a.m. AEST 27th November – […]
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Artist on Artist: Leonard Brown on Chris Gaynor
The point of intersection of the timeless With time is an occupation for the saint – No occupation either, but something given And taken, in a lifetime’s death in love, – T.S.Eliot Eliot can’t remain silent, nor hold back in his admiration for the artist, the poet and other seekers whose quest leads them fearlessly […]
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The Fire Within: A Requiem For Katia and Maurice Krafft
In 1991, Maurice and Katia Krafft died during the Mount Unzen eruption on Japan’s island of Kyushu. Herzog’s documentary does meditate on their deaths and the notion of “impending doom,” but his concerns are the Kraffts’ humanity and their mythic imagery. He is not interested the couple as people per se – their lives are […]
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Hill End Analogue
Lauded for its higher dynamic range, analogue photography captures the ephemeral moment with all its nuance and detail. Colour for example is true to the moment, as are the idiosyncrasies of photographer, film, light, and exposure. It is also responsive to dark room process, where on-the-spot decisions influence tone, contrast and serendipity. As Hill End […]
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Tagged Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Hill End Analogue, photography
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Tim Page, a personal memoir
The obituaries that appeared in the days after his death, online and in newspapers from London to Los Angeles, mostly focused on when he was a combat photographer during the Vietnam War, on the fact that he was wounded four times, on the drugs and sex and rock-and-roll of those years. They referred to Page’s […]
Patrick Hall
“I am hoping to be a vector for empathy in a world no longer stable, where global ruins and war remind us of the way lives appear and suddenly disappear, the way a life can be made redundant in the almost imperceptible catch of a breath … all that is left is the shadow.” Hall’s […]
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Tagged Despard Gallery, Patrick Hall, the paper its written on
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Hill End Analogue
A two day event that showcases contemporary Analogue photography and audience participation educational Analogue photography workshops. Presented across the Hill End Historic site, NSW. Saturday 18th / Sunday 19th November 2023. Showcasing works by photographic artists: Steven Cavanagh James Farley Silvi Glattauer Sammy Hawker Bill Moseley Eloise Maree Irene Ridgeway Enrico Scotece Kurt Sorenson Craig […]
Issue 64
Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work. EDITOR’S NOTE Brent Harris, our cover artist, will expand our experience of painting and art history. Few artists can boast such qualities as Brent. Artist and writer Peter Hill has eloquently provided us the opportunity to see Brent’s […]
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Nasim Nasr
The word “freedom” is at the centre of humanity – to be human is to be free, to relate to others, spaces, and places without restrictions or persecution. Iranian-born and Sydney-based artist Nasim Nasr explores the concept of freedom through her multidisciplinary practice. As a young child growing up in Iran, her artistic talent was […]
CAN ART MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
I am back in Afghanistan and I am more certain than ever that the kind of socially committed art and teaching we doing at our Yellow House is making difference to many lives here as well as informing the outside world . . . We are proving, in a very real way, that art and […]
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Lyndal Jones
Time is central to the art of Lyndal Jones. Working with durational practice, her installations include video, performance, theatre, dance, photography, and sound. Encounters with her projects unfold; her audiences navigate immersive experiences that capture layered processes of making and accumulation of meaning derived from extended exchanges with subjects and subject. Jones identifies the nascent […]
The Great Unwrapping
Every so often an Artwork appears, the very name of which – in a few words – captures the most complex issues of its time. The Wrapped Trees Repatriation Project by Juundaal Strang-Yettica is one of those artworks. This conceptual project proposes repatriating the two eucalyptus trees, currently in the Art Gallery of New South […]
Two Decades of the James Makin Gallery
The place was packed. Artist Godwin Bradbeer, as part of his current exhibition, was giving a public demonstration of his very personal method of making drawings that are almost paintings, and paintings that are almost drawings. “All these artworks are drawn in what was once called freehand, in graphite and waxed chinagraph pencil,” he told […]
Mortalised
i. Eyes squinting in the sunlight, as these memories are made material. Not our family, not our stories, yet these are meals we might have shared, lovers we might have held. ii. What prompted her to take out her camera? The energy of a group of friends laughing, a warm arm around a shoulder, play […]
David Serisier: Here and There
What has happened in Serisier’s work, with forty+ years of skilful experience under his belt, is that the object/subject divide has diminished. A compelling and weird effect has occurred over time ̶ there is less subjectivity to the paintings ̶ by this, I mean less spectacle and less personality, but more of the seen/sensed and […]
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Steve Lopes: Shapes For Gods
The exhibition title Shapes For Gods is taken from the painting of the same name. It is the pivotal work amongst a field of twenty-three figurative paintings, a print and a drawing. Shapes For Gods is Lopes’ fourth solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art and follows last year’s Encountered, a twenty-five-year survey (which this writer […]
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Tricky Walsh
Tricky Walsh appears on my laptop screen, their voice slightly distorted as we converse over distance through a shaky network from one regional part of Tasmania to another: it’s a Zoom conversation. This is how we get in touch. It’s a bit like science fiction, but it’s also a bit daggy – the future is […]
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Tagged MARS Gallery, Melbourne, painting, sculpture, tasmania, Tricky Walsh
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Renee So
Renee So’s faces don’t often have all their features. Some have noses, but her early busts and knitted paintings often have mouths grown over by facial (or head) hair. Many wear masks, covering almost every detail which would give a hint of their character. “But they always have eyes,” she says. Like these characters, So’s […]
Sydney Contemporary 2023
I like the collegiality that art fairs seem to bring out between competing galleries. I remember at one fair, Andy Dinan from MARS gallery said to me, “I really look out for James Makin at these events. He’s so tall, if I ever have to hang something high, he’s able to do it without even […]
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Tagged Explore Sydney Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2023
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Claudine Marzik’s Undara Paintings
The opportunity to write about Claudine Marzik’s impressive art practice is indeed a pleasure. On first seeing her work I was impressed by its refined but energetic gestural mark-making that appeared to contain a language that was both familiar but unique in the way that it responded to the particularities of the ‘northern’ seasonal environment. […]
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Tagged Claudine marzik, Northsite contemporary, Undara
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Mossenson Galleries at Sydney Contemporary
Settler artists have long recognised the work of their Indigenous fellows – in the 1960s Australia sent a collection of Indigenous bark paintings to the Sao Paolo Biennale; and, of course, the Papunya Tula acrylic paintings, first shown in the next decade, brought Indigenous imagery on canvas into the wider public imagination. I remember the […]
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Tagged Brian Robinson, Matthew Clarke, mossenson galleries, peter zappa
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