Author Archives: Artist Profile
Alicia Mozqueira
In some senses, Alicia Mozqueira’s latest body of work speaks the language of still life: its visual vocabulary is full of darkness as a quality and as an object in itself, of flashes of intense, redolent colour, and of folds on folds of petals, living and/or dying forever in the painting. These units of painterly […]
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Letters from Ukraine: 12/06/22 – Looking Glass
I was about twelve years old and out on a Sunday picnic in the Royal National Park with my parents and grandparents. Nana set out the picnic next to a river because she knew I would be entertained by catching yabbies. I would put a piece of rotten meat on a string and coax them […]
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New Australian Printmaking
Comprising sixty-eight works by four artists in the heights of their careers, New Australian Printmaking encapsulates senses of both resolution and revolution. Revolving, the show explores a turn in each artist’s practice, as they experiment with a medium for which they’re not most known, or in which they’re not (or, now, in which they weren’t) most practiced. […]
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Tagged Megan Cope, National Gallery of Victoria, Patricia Piccinini, Shaun Gladwell, Tim McGuire
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Belinda Fox: Ukraine Fundraiser
Two unique prints by Belinda Fox – printed with Trent Walter – have been generously made available to Artist Profile readers at AUD $1500, with 100% of the proceeds donated to a family displaced by the conflict in Ukraine. Fox has kindly donated these prints to assist the family of her Ukrainian friend, Alena, whom she knew while […]
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Melitta Perry
That the figure in Melitta Perry’s Birdwatching (Regent Honeyeaters), 2022, has her back turned to the viewer is emblematic of the artist’s approach to narrative. It’s emblematic, that is, of emblems themselves. This woman’s story spools out in so many speculative directions at once – magnetised towards the future and the past, equally – while never revealing its hand […]
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Letters from Ukraine: 5/6/22 – Interior
An eighteen-year-old with a gun in Texas was the tipping point that drew attention away from Ukraine. This war has slipped from the front of the news and the networks have cut back their presence, bringing many of their crews back home. For a period the only people we saw in the Maidan, besides Ukrainian […]
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Jenn Nkiru: REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
This presentation of the work itself is a re-imagination – or, a rebirth – of Nkiru’s original version of the film. Back in 2017, Nkiru presented a single-channel iteration of the work with NOWNESS, the digital media screening platform founded by TRANSFORMER curator Jefferson Hack. Here, it appeared as part of the Black Star series, […]
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Tagged Brisbane, IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Jenn Nkiru
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Sounds of Unridden Waves
Surf culture is not likely to be the first thing you think of when you think of Melbourne’s art world. Perhaps this is precisely the interest of the inaugural exhibition at Melbourne’s Project8 gallery space, Sounds of Unridden Waves. The works primary creators, The Ghosts of Nothing – Sean Lowry and Ilmar Taimre – frequently work to “create […]
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The Illawarra Pavilion
When you enter The Illawarra Pavilion at Wollongong Art Gallery, the experience is immediately tranquil. As one of the gallery staff enters a moment after I do, to turn on an uncooperative screen, she comments that she could sit in here for hours because it’s so peaceful. Within the large, square gallery space, additional faux […]
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Tagged Gary Carsley, Renjie Teoh, The ArtHitects, The Illawarra Pavilion, Wollongong Art Gallery
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Amelia Lynch
Ceramicist Amelia Lynch is based on the New South Wales Central Coast – a quotidian detail at first blush, perhaps, but one which extends beyond the realm of biographical “fact” and into more explanatory territory. Her most recent body of work, showing this May with Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, reflects on her phenomenological and emotional relationships […]
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Tagged Amelia Lynch, Arthouse gallery, Australian ceramics, ceramics, contemporary ceramics
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Anita West
West works now in a studio in Brisbane. She’s surrounded in this environment by concrete, traffic, glitz. Many of her works recall beloved landscapes: the Blue Mountains on the Country of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples, or the land around the Redlands home where she lived for almost fifteen years with her family. “It backed onto […]
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Tagged Anita West, Harvey Galleries
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Mick Richards
I’ve known Mick Richards since 1992. Knowing Mick is special, but it’s also – as the photographs in this exhibition testify – an experience that large numbers of people across the world have enjoyed. This show shares 200 images of his work to date, culled from an archive of over 500,000, a forty-odd-year survey of […]
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Honey Long and Prue Stent
Honey Long and Prue Stent talk about their collaborative process and ongoing examinations of sexuality, femininity and the landscape.
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Sydney Ball
One of Australia’s most respected artists, Syd Ball has been developing colour painting since the early 1960s when he set off to Manhattan to study under abstract expressionist painter Theodoros Stamos. His work, executed in series, has variously explored colour through modular arrangements, expressionism and structural form, with a tendency to revisit the modular as […]
Letters from Ukraine: 21/05/22 – Our Failure
Kate and I headed out to Bucha at five this morning, to the Russian tank containing the charred remains of a Russian soldier. Last night I had been trying to finish a large drawing based on my diary sketches, but realised I needed to include more of the minute detail. The soldier was like a […]
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Todd Jenkins
The texture of the oil paint in Todd Jenkins’s Lunar Current, 2022, is at once delicate and densely packed onto the canvas. There is a sense that the painting is calling out be touched, as well as to be explored by the eye. Though the painting’s title suggests the moon-led movements of the oceans around Tasmania, the […]
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Tagged Add Jenkins, Despard, Despard Gallery
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Letters from Ukraine: 16/5/22 – Smell of Victory
As we arrived in Kyiv this morning from Odessa on the overnight train there was a real smell of victory in the air. Kate was at the carriage door to meet us and help with our bags. She was lighter and happier than I have seen her with a new reggae hair style and bubbling […]
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Letters from Ukraine: 14/5/22 – Kandinsky
When I was out painting Z the Defiler as an action in the Greek Square, Odessa, with poet, Viktor Solodchuk we were visited by a highly esteemed art teacher, Igor Nosok. Igor has taught here for fifty years and is loved by all the Odessan artists I have met. I had overheard Igor mentioning Kandinsky to Hellen. […]
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John Young
The youngest of four siblings, John Zerunge Young spent his childhood on the southern side of Hong Kong, in an art deco granite house that was scarred with Japanese bullet holes from the Second World War. As a child, looking out from the balcony he painted views of the sea and the sun setting over […]
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Tagged John Young, Olsen Gallery, painting, photography
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Helmut Newton
If you want a biography of Helmut Newton, look at the Helmut Newton Foundation official website or Wikipedia. It’s all there and it’s fascinating, but given I’m probably talking to a marginally informed audience let me summarise: Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest photographic artists and fashion photographers of the twentieth century. […]
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Tagged Helmut Newton, Jewish Museum of Australia, Kim Guthrie, photography
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Telly Tu’u
Bobbing & Weaving, 2022, the eponymous work in Telly Tu’u’s current show with James Makin Gallery, sets us swiftly moving through a garden of formal delights, perfectly conceived and executed for the eye to tumble through. In this painting, as across all of this body of work, moments of dense, energetic movement collide with little snippets […]
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Letters from Ukraine: 9/7/22 – Bombed
Around ten thirty tonight a huge explosion rocked our building. We are in a three-hundred-year-old building residence – not a hotel but part of the old city with a courtyard and carriageway. Hellen chose it from the internet because it looked bohemian. Our neighbour is also named George, and is a soft spoken and very […]
