Author Archives: Artist Profile
Peter Hudson
For his recent exhibition, Peter Hudson: The mystery of being here, the University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery has assembled fifty paintings and drawings showing Hudson’s creative contemplations. It is a collection that offers insight into the artist giving thought to spiritual mysteries and his awe and fascination for the natural world. The mystery […]
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Tagged John Waldron, Peter Hudson, USC Gallery
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Angelica Mesiti
A crisp artificial sheen settles on the contours of Angelica Mesiti’s face as she gazes at her laptop screen in a windowless room strewn with cables.
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Tagged Angelica Mesiti, Elli Walsh, Venice Biennale
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2°: Euan Macleod & Rodney Pople
Having always drawn on his travels, Macleod naturally gravitated to the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo on return from a Broken Hill road trip when considering a collaborative project with Rodney Pople: “It was lovely because you have to think about things that are moving and I thought, what a lovely thing to do […]
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Daniel Weber
By his own account, Weber grew up “in the midst of the plains of Minnesota, in a small town of about 30,000 people . . . and the only escape was the library.” As he tells me, “I moved to a larger city when I was sixteen, and became aware of all of these narratives […]
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Dean Bowen
Melbourne artist Dean Bowen knows exactly when and why he decided to become a sculptor as well as a printmaker and painter. It was 1993, in Paris, when Bowen was creating lithographs with master technicians at Atelier Franck Bordas. One day, while a lithographic stone was being grained in preparation for his next work, Bowen […]
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Tagged Anthea Polson Art
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NGV Architecture Commission: Temple of Boom
I am discussing Temple of Boom, this year’s NGV Architecture Commission, with Moore – who is the NGV Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture. The seventh annual commission since 2015 – skipping a year in 2020, when it was especially difficult to exist or create in public space in Melbourne – Temple of Boom is the work of […]
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Tagged Adam Newman, Kelvin Tsang, National Gallery of Victoria, NGV Architecture Commission, Temple of Boom
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Artists with Home Studios Denied Insurance
A great number of artists produce artwork in their bedrooms, at the dining table or in their backyards. As some of the lowest-paid professionals in Australia, many artists cannot afford business insurance as well as an offsite studio to produce their work. The impacts of recent floods, as well as the ongoing pandemic, have meant that […]
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Tagged NAVA, Penelope Benton
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Pilar Mata Dupont
Your current exhibition with PICA, Las Hormigas/The Ants, includes work which audiences may have seen presented in different forms in a variety of contexts – through Prototype, for example, or with Artspace for 52 Artists. Can you tell me a little about the process of developing the exhibition from these earlier presentations of your work? […]
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Vipoo Srivilasa
I spoke with Vipoo Srivilasa about his upcoming exhibition at Olsen Gallery over beloved Zoom. The technology strongly embraced during the pandemic is not the only hangover of these past few years, but as Srivilasa playfully explores in this exhibition, so is the lingering sense of loneliness. The exhibition Always Better Together focusses on friendship […]
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Tagged Olsen Gallery, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Vipoo Srivilasa
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Rosie Deacon
Work for this show has been devised in part while on residency at the Old Cheese Factory in Berwick. How did this space/place shape the work, and do any other places inform it? The residency at the Old Cheese Factory was a fantastic opportunity to have time and space to develop new sculptural forms and […]
Jacqueline Rose
In an upper corner of the home in which Rose works, a desk is laden – neatly laden – with the objects of her current study: small, utilisable textile items, largely mono- or dichromatic, with intricate, geometrically patterned bodies. On the opposite wall is a bookcase. The special, slim editions mainly live on the shelves […]
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Tagged Jacqueline Rose, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf
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Andrew Andersons: Architecture and the Public Realm
When the Australian colonies began to build their first museums – inaugurated by what is now known as The Lady Franklin Museum at the foot of Mount Wellington in Hobart in 1842 – they naturally reflected the taste of their time, namely neoclassical. The porticos, columns, and pediments, often with relief sculptures, elicited the spirit […]
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Tagged AGNSW, Andrew Andersons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NewSouth Books
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Suji Park
In 2015, Park made Garden, a site-specific mixed-media installation which fused an imagined archaeological site with a consideration of the histories embedded in material culture. Free from the constraints of the gallery environment, Park embedded Garden into a grassy landscape, first removing a section of turf and then breaking up and turning the topsoil. Digging […]
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Tagged Auckland Art Gallery, Ivan Anthony, The Dowse Art Museum
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Life is Art: Works by John Nixon from the collection of Susan Taylor and Peter Jones
The Open Collections Gallery at Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) has been operating since 1999. It functions as a discrete space within CMAG for collectors from the Canberra region to display their personal collections. Previous exhibitions have included teapots, radios, model ships, pulp fiction books. and antique scientific and mathematical instruments that one might associate […]
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Gordon Hookey
All elections bring forth a tumultuous change in the Australian society, as the old order is thrown out like confetti from a departing ship of fools and a new course is set for a journey charting turbulent and dangerous waters of the minds, hearts, and spirit of all of us in our Country, in the […]
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Tagged IMA, Milani Gallery, UNSW Galleries
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James Angus
In 2017, Angus and his wife, artist Liz Linden, decided to leave New York and move to California. “It was a period of consolidation, and I didn’t make a lot of work. I started a fairly intense renovation of a beautiful but terrifying Victorian house in Berkeley and set up some studio spaces, so everything […]
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Tagged Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
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Bluethumb Art Prize 2022: Lauren Starr
Can you tell us a little about your work towards the Bluethumb Art Prize-winning photograph, Midas’ Daughter II? It’s funny, but I guess like many artworks, the inspiration came from multiple sources. I read a lot of historical literature and had just finished reading Circe by Madeline Miller. It reignited my love of mythology. I was […]
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Issue 60
Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work. EDITOR’S NOTE Without compromise, for the last forty years Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey has held a metaphorical mirror to himself and his work. Hookey makes work about the past and the future. His drawings, paintings, prints, […]
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It’s not as if
I’ve ever wanted more than to write so I do now on a plane as it lurches into the sky through clouds that bump anxiety into the open – and I promise whatever god’s at hand to do better – inhabit my life and understand the yawn and ache of it. This poem was originally […]
Paddington Art Prize and the Defiance Award
The Paddington Art Prize, now in its nineteenth year under the leadership of founder Marlene Antico OAM, was established to encourage engagement with landscape as a significant genre of contemporary painting – and as, in the organisation’s words, “a key contributor to our national ethos.” The scope of finalists’ works this year, and their grapplings with […]
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From “Our Animals”
Are these strange lands? I recall a forum. Can you guess at me? Here we are embarking. It’s the mountaintop. My taxidermist was unnamed we are somewhat unhurried. […]
Fox
I found the fox in a boxed grave of field – a bale of dandelions, wheatgrass, wild poppy and thistle. If it were possible for the sky to be scythed and squared into a cut of night the way a field could be baled, I’d be buried this way in a grave of stars. This […]
Jumaadi
In his first-floor studio on the fringe of a large industrial estate on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi is crouched down in the middle a suite of paintings that spread across the floor. He has removed his shoes and is scrambling over six three-metre-long epic narrative paintings that employ his familiar naïve imagery. So […]
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Tagged King Street Gallery on William
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