Author Archives: Artist Profile
Josh Foley
The task of writing about one’s process is a fraught one. For myself, there are many shifts of method and material between each exhibition and each picture that, by the time I’ve written this sentence, a new way of approaching the question of how to paint may have emerged. I remember, during my studies at […]
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Tagged Despard Gallery, Hyper Landscape, Josh Foley
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Khaled Sabsabi and Kon Gouriotis OAM in Conversation
Artist Khaled Sabsabi launched his new monograph this May and is coming to Mosman Art Gallery for an ‘in conversation’ with one of his editors Kon Gouriotis OAM. After the ‘in conversation’, Khaled will be doing a book signing and books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served. Free event, booking is […]
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Floating Land: Us and Them
Floating Land, which l started in 2001, grew out of the European art-in-nature movement, and was based on the French event Le Vent des Forets. It also coincided with the development, in Germany, of the organization Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN). Over the years Le Vent des Forets has changed and so has AiNIN. […]
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Tagged Floating Land: Us and Them, Noosa regional gallery
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Belinda Fox
Fox is clearly nourished by her practice, with a love of making that permeates and is influenced by all elements of her life. This can be seen in the wide range of techniques she has perfected, the multiple references informing each work, and the deep connections she has made with others through her art. To […]
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Tagged Add it up, Belinda Fox, Mildura arts centre
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Emma Coulter
One of the most defining features of Emma Coulter’s work is her choice of colours, with the artist preferring to work with a limited palette of pre-determined hues and shades sourced from existing synthetic paints. Where other artists may find the limited colour palette restrictive or even repetitive, in Coulter’s hands her choice to work […]
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Tagged Emma Coulter, Infinite Systems, James Makin Gallery
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Suzanne Archer
Occupying the North Gallery of the newly expanded Orange Regional Gallery, Archer’s work is both monumental and domestic, and though the size of her work is large, there is a compatibility of scale that comfortably locates the work within the space. Moreover, the vast expanses of gallery white walls lend Archer’s highly physical work a […]
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Tagged Orange Regional Gallery, Suzanne Archer, the mermaids tail
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Matthew Cheyne
Matthew Cheyne has structured his life around family and home, both tethered to an art practice that is integral to who he is. Sustainability is environmental and his house and studio were designed and built by Cheyne and wife Caroline in recent years, overlooking its bush surrounds and sitting lightly on its small imprint of […]
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Tagged keep off the grass, matthew cheyne, Mitchell Fine Art
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Mika Utzon Popov
Jørn Utzon was guided by the ideology that architecture is not an external form, but a frame enclosing a collection of ritualised events. For Mika Utzon Popov art can also be a ritualised experience. He emphasises that the most profound encounters are designed and experienced as a procession where art, architecture, atmosphere, and environment conspire […]
Flight
“Flight” is a compelling title for an exhibition. The word suggests transcendence. It calls to mind a kind of ideal: the half-formed notion that we could leave the earth, with all of its terrestrial concerns, and float off into the clouds. Weightless. Yet the latest show at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre does not float away. […]
Tomás Saraceno
Oceans of Air does many things, but all of them revolve around a central imperative: slow down. Tomás Saraceno plunges you into darkness on entering the exhibition, and blinds you with a solitary beam of brilliant crystalline light, filled with dancing, flickering dust motes that emerge into sharp focus as one’s eyes adjust. This is […]
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Tagged museum of old and new art, oceans of air, tomas sarceno
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Gabrielle Courtenay
The raw matter of Gabrielle Courtenay’s work often appears to her like a dream-like force. Branches, root forms, discarded household objects—these drop down or are carried up into Courtenay’s hands by conspiracies of the world beyond her, as she moves across urban parks, coastlines, and the storied spaces of her own and others’ homes. Wood […]
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Tagged following the moonlight path, Gabrielle Courtenay, sheffer gallery
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Olafur Eliasson
“I think an experience is not something that just happens to us, it’s something we choose to do,” Olafur Eliasson opined. The Icelandic–Danish artist was speaking to the press about his new site-specific installation Under the weather, 2022, an elliptical structure suspended at eight metres above the public courtyard of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in […]
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Tagged castello di rivoli, olafur eliasson, orizzonti tremanti
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Artist Talk: Naomi Hobson and Dr Shireen Morris
At Arthouse Gallery in Sydney, Naomi Hobson and Dr Shireen Morris shared their stories and discussed the concept of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to Parliament. Naomi Hobson is an artist from Coen, a small town built on the Country of the Kaantiu peoples, her maternal line; not far from this is the […]
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Issue 62
Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work. EDITOR’S NOTE When an artist wins the Archibald, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize, they achieve fame well beyond the Australian art world. Blak Douglas (a.k.a. Adam Hill) won last year, with a towering three-metre-high painting of his friend, […]
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Euan Macleod
Modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Peter Booth render humans moving shadows, blended with their environs. Euan Macleod charts a different path. In his early masterpieces, for instance, Bacon depicts spectral flesh, with bodies, and faces – animal, human, humanoid – becoming phantoms. Bacon’s works juxtaposed animal states, erotic spectacle, and exposed meat, within a context of […]
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Tagged Euan Macleod, King Street Gallery on William, summit roads
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Aaron Fell-Fracasso
This playful approach is designed to keep a viewer interested, and he’s eager to throw them off the scent of how a work was made. As he states, “If I look at someone’s painting, I’m always trying to work out how they have created the mark, and when I’m making a work, I’m imagining someone […]
David Booth
I’ve been hypnotised by drawings for as long as I can remember. My eyes are curious, always scanning the shapes of things, tracing repeat patterns and getting a bit lost in intersecting lines. There’s something about seeing the world this way that makes you want to draw everything. There must be some little receptors in […]
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Tagged david booth, drawing is magic, hugo michell gallery, process
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Khaled Sabsabi Book Launch
Bandicoot Publishing is thrilled to present Khaled Sabsabi, a collection of essays about the artist and his work. The launch event of Khaled Sabsabi will be held at Campbelltown Arts Centre on the 27th of May at 11am. All are welcome and attendance is free. There will be an opportunity to purchase a book and have […]
I Live in a Bombed Apartment Block in Borodyanka
Spending time filming George painting on a wall of a destroyed apartment block in Borodyanka today was like sitting still in a forest as creatures gradually start emerging quietly everywhere. However, the spring flowers here are blooming in a tortured forest of burned monolithic giants, towering totems of torched horror, smattered with occasional blossoms. It […]
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Tagged Dispatch series, Hellen Rose, I Live in a Bombed Apartment Block in Borodyanka, Ukraine
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James Tylor
Just as I begin writing up this article, I see a post by Tylor on Instagram showing Kaurna digging tools he has just completed – a Katha stick, Karku spade, and Yuku dish – made for his son to play with at the beach. Images show their elegant and purposeful forms sitting atop the pale […]
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Tagged James Tylor, Turrangka...In the shadows, UNSW Galleries
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Mel Douglas
The glass scene in Australia is rumbling, swelling. A jolt of new energy pulses through its crystalline veins as many contemporary artists are starting to think more about glass as an accessible, experimental material. Mel Douglas has been at the forefront of this glass scene for almost three decades. Working out of the Canberra Glassworks […]
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Tagged canberra glassworks, caterina togon, luminance, mel douglas, venice
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The National 4: Australian Art Now
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current events, and home. Two of these are: Hoda Afshar’s confrontational selection of photographs, Aura; a timeline of three years, 2020-2023, consisting of the social and political turmoil that has dominated […]
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Tagged Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Art Now, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks, museum of contemporary arts, The National 4
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Paved Paradise: The Paradox of Art Vandalism
In 1974, Tony Shafrazi took a spray can and wrote “KILL ALL LIES” directly onto Picasso’s Guernica, 1937, hanging at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He claimed his rationale was an anti-war statement, so ergo, his method was to deface an anti-war painting. And not just any artwork, but the anti-war painting […]
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Tagged Anna Johnson, Art Vandalism
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Jenny Watson
Jenny, you grew up in suburban Melbourne and you have spoken about how that experience hugely influenced your practice. Now you split your time between rural Queensland and Europe. What motivated you to pursue opportunities overseas? As a graduate in the 1970s I felt that I was at the end of the world and certainly […]
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Tagged Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, six new works and the patricia paintings
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