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Light Now
In this year’s Sydney Contemporary, MARS Gallery will present a new exhibition Light Now featuring works from three Melbourne-based artists: Jenna Lee, Diego Ramirez, and Meagan Streader. The artists consider light’s physical, psychological, and conceptual properties as well as capacity to carry layered meanings. Jenna Lee’s new works extend upon her recent explorations of First […]
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35 years and counting: Utopia Art Sydney
The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young artists in Sydney working multiple part-time jobs to support their exhibiting career. “In the late eighties I saw artists who needed a hand” he explains, with the same purposeful succinctness […]
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Tagged John R Walker, Sydney Contemporary, Utopia Art Sydney
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Trevor Vickers
Trevor Vickers has been working in abstraction for more than five decades, importing constructed visualisations onto canvas, offering ways of how the world can be perceived and understood. He has produced, and continues to produce, some of the finest abstract paintings in the country. An overview of Vickers’ practice with works from the 1970s to […]
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Tagged Charles Nodrum Gallery, Sydney Contemporary, Trevor Vickers
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Issue 63
Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work. EDITOR’S NOTE Some readers of Artist Profile would know that since the industrialisation of photography in the early nineteenth century, debates continue around painting versus photography — even whether a painter should reveal or conceal their reliance on […]
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Sydney Contemporary 2023
Artist Profile is proud to be a Major Partner of Sydney Contemporary 2023, working with leading independent curators 3:33 Art Projects to present Jasper Knight’s new series The Coral Coast at this year’s fair. Catalogue of The Coral Coast: here Artist Profile will also be launching The Clayton Utz Art Partnership: 2017 – 2022 book. Available here […]
HOSSEI
HOSSEI doesn’t always want to know what his work is about, “For me, it’s more about a feeling, and I want you to feel something when you witness my work. I want you to be moved by the shapes and the colours, movement and sound.” HOSSEI’s practice is guided by a knot in his belly, […]
On Moving Forward, Looking Back, and Side-Stepping What’s to Come
The first biennale I ever attended was the 18th Biennale of Sydney (BoS) in 2012. I was fifteen at the time, and up until then had only been exposed to historical art of the Western canon. As I slowly wandered around Cockatoo Island, I remember feeling so in awe that I felt this big tension […]
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Tagged Sydney Biennale, Sydney Biennale 2024
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Jenny Bell
“I have lived on or in proximity to Ngunnawal country most of my life, but I know that I will never have the detailed knowledge born of a culture that has lived in communion with land in the way our first custodians did. It is with this awareness that I acknowledge elders past, present and […]
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Tagged Goulburn regional art gallery, Jenny Bell, lifeforms
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Fiona Somerville
Fiona Somerville was born in Adelaide, where nineteenth century European settlers built a stately colonial city on the fertile coastal plain, surrounding it with a formal ring of parks, the town plan emphasising the cool of the Torrens River. The city climbs up its surrounding hills; it seems every citizen is a gardener. But however […]
Awkward Visions: Melbourne Now
Ten years ago, the National Gallery of Victoria presented the first iteration of Melbourne Now: a “blockbuster” summer show featuring over 250 works across the NGV’s two venues. The exhibition aimed to affirm the city’s status as one of the cultural capitals of the world, demonstrating to a broad public the ways in which Melbourne […]
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Tagged Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, NGV
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Joshua Andree
Congratulations on winning the Packing Room Prize in the Hadley’s Art Prize. Can you tell me more about your work and the significance of its title, Once Still Water (Requiem for a Lake)? The west coast of Tasmania is a contested environment, it’s got 250 years of industry that’s degraded the land and the history […]
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Tagged Despard Gallery, Joshua Andree, Moonah Arts Centre, Personal Geography
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Yvonne Boag
The Scottish born Australian artist looks straight at the camera, a no-nonsense flock of red curly hair frames her face, one hand is nestled in her pocket, the other cuddles a fluffy white dog – a disciplined animal poised on the artist’s work bench amidst a scatter of working drawings. Further afield, a vast array […]
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Tagged All Over the Place, Stella Downer Fine Art, Yvonne Boag
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David Green
David Green’s works featured in We were all young once – and other things almost resemble etchings. Green uses a dip pen with Indian ink to create thousands of cross-hatched lines. The scenes that he creates transition between black and white, and faded colour, evoking a sense of memory. All the exhibited works use paper […]
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Tagged Anthea Polson Art, David Green, We were all young once - and other things
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Sydney Modern: A Crystal Palace Full of Dreams
My first memory of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) was visiting the gallery as a young fellow in the early 1960s, with my father. Striding across The Domain towards the Walter Vernon building, with its honey-coloured classical columns, confidently poised between the city and what was then a working harbour, we were […]
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Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Artistic director, Francoise Lane, is an artist and designer herself whose practice spans textile design, visual, sculpture, and surface pattern art. Lane, in her second year as Artistic Director, saw a record attendance and sales in 2022 and says she looks forward to the continued success and demand for First Nations Art in Queensland. The […]
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Jenna Lee
Up until recently this process was applied almost exclusively to copies of the book “Aboriginal Words and Place Names.” whereby I would tear, pulp, weave and burn the pages, healing and transforming them into new objects of cultural beauty and pride. The homogenising of books filled with words ripped from their connection to people and […]
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Tagged Beneath the surface (of the billabong), Jenna Lee, MARS Gallery
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Daniel Boyd
Around the same time that Daniel Boyd’s exhibition RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION) opened at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, marking the multidisciplinary artist’s most comprehensive solo show in Europe, a news story about London’s National Portrait Gallery’s last-ditch efforts to prevent a painting by Joshua Reynolds from going into private hands was making headlines. Described as “one of […]
Blak Douglas
1970, the year Adam Hill was born, was a turbulent time of great change. It was time of the beginning of the Papunya Tula dot- and circle-painting movement in Central Australia, and of a major acceptance of Aboriginal art into the Australian contemporary art world. It could be seen to have begun with the painting […]
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Tagged Adam Hill, Blak Douglas, Inverted Commoners, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
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Damien Shen
“Entombed in Joy” might be a contradiction in terms, but so are, in some sense, the paintings that it names. In Shen’s most buoyant body of work of his career, cartoon characters and emblems familiar to him as a kid growing up in the 1980s are juxtaposed against punch-coloured shields with patterns of Shen’s Ngarrindjeri […]
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Ukraine Guernica – Artist War
Winter Light Photographers and filmmakers call the last hour of sunlight in the afternoon the “magic hour” because colours glow with their fullest intensity and are no longer washed out by the intensity of reflected sunlight. It is the same in mid-winter when the sun is at a low angle all day. People caught up […]
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Tagged Dispatch series, George Gittoes, Hellen Rose, Ukraine
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National Identity in The National
The National 4: Australian Art Now features exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia). The National’s five curators: Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley, Freja Carmichael, Jane Devery, Beatrice Gralton and Emily Rolfe offer a selection of works in line with […]
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Tagged Art Gallery of NSW, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks, museum of contemporary arts, The National 4, the national: australian art now
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