Author Archives: Artist Profile
Hossein Valamanesh: Puisque tout passe
Within Puisque tout passe (This Will Also Pass), Hossein Valamanesh’s first European solo exhibition at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI), is a documentary that provides insight into Valamanesh’s fifty-year practice. It almost runs chronologically, detailing significant life experiences that have profoundly influenced his works. The artist himself gently narrates over the rolling footage. He […]
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Tagged Adelaice, Beau Lai, GAG Projects, Hossein Valamanesh, Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris
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Sonia Payes – ALCHEMY
Hybridity is an integral part of Payes’s artistic practice, and over her professional career, she has combined her foundational photographic work with digital imagery, 3D technologies, animated film, and sculpture. In this exhibition, she continues to blur categorical distinctions, bringing together her photographic works and the sculptural work that has developed from it as a […]
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Tagged Perth, sculpture, Sonia Payes, Ted Snell, There Is
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Lawrence Weiner: A Personal Recollection
I first met Lawrence in 1980, when I was a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design. I had of course seen his work while I was living in Europe in the 1970s, at various sites, but it was the work at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands that piqued my curiosity. […]
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Tagged Art Gallery of New South Wales, Brad Buckley, Conceptual Art, Lawrence Weiner
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Jason Phu
Sometimes I get asked how I make my work. I’m not so sure, but I think the past is somehow important. Not only how you lived it, but how you remember it.
The Edge of the Skin & the World: Kristian Burford
I found out about Burford’s practice through a mutual friend and former art dealer – the advisor Paul Judelson – at dinner a while back. Over cheese, Judelson told me about this artist I “had to see” because, I was told, Burford is Australian, living over here, and making the kind of subversive visual images that […]
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Tagged Kristian Burford, Rose Vickers
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Lisa Sammut
I speak with Lisa Sammut from her Canberra studio. She tells me that the leaves of paper surrounding her in the space come mainly from the illustrated books which she has been sourcing and collecting, and then painting over, creating a kind of solution out of making and research. “I have a lot of these old […]
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Tagged Lisa Sammut, Mosman Art Gallery
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Hellen Rose: Haunted Burqa
The online festival makes the film freely available here, along with other programmed features. As companions to the film, Rose and her collaborators produced a three-part audio series. Artist Profile is delighted to share the first in this series, “The White Burqa.” Audio credits: Written and narrated by Hellen Rose Musical accompaniment by Fred Gianelli (Psychic […]
Posted in Contents, Emrick Family Art Projects
Tagged Hellen Rose, Yellow House Jalalabad, Yellow Submarine to Taliwood
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 12/12/21
This era started with watching people jump to their deaths from the Twin Towers on 9/11 and ended twenty years later, close to 9/11, when desperate Afghans fell from the planes at Kabul Airport. We are presently contacting people who lost loved ones who clung to the planes and fell to their deaths. Our film […]
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Tagged Emrick Family Art Projects, George Gittoes, Hellen Rose, Yellow Submarine to Taliwood
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 11/12/21
Watching footage of crowds running with the huge grey evacuation planes, some made it up onto the wheel hubs. Most were reaching for something to hang onto but one guy was sitting and looking into his phone screen. Was he saying goodbye to loved ones? Was someone desperately telling him to get off before it was […]
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Tagged Emrick Family Art Projects, George Gittoes, Hellen Rose, Yellow Submarine to Taliwood
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Know My Name
They say as you get older the policemen get younger – for some of us it’s Directors of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), where the charming Nick Mitzevich is now in charge. In his office last September, we remembered James Mollison, its first occupant, from whom Mitzevich, when appointed, took advice. Mollison had a […]
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Tagged Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia
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Tracey and Kathy Ramsay
Tarnanthi, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art returns for its sixth iteration in October 2021. Curated by Nici Cumpston, the exhibition is an extensive survey of contemporary Aboriginal art from across Australia. The word “tarnanthi” comes from the language of the Kaurna people, the Traditional Owners […]
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Tagged Art Gallery of South Australia, Kathy Ramsay, Tarn, Tarnanthi, Tracey Ramsay
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Fiona McGregor: Buried Not Dead
It’s 1996 and Fiona McGregor has been away for “almost a year.” She’s back in Sydney, sitting in the audience at Club 77 and watching a drag performer Groovii Biscuit “in a three-piece suit with big messy eyebrows and clunky glasses,’ a caricature of the recently elected John Howard. “The song crescendoed and s/he started […]
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Tagged Book, Brooke Boland, Buried Not Dead, Fiona McGregor, Giramondo, Marina Abramovic, Performance Art
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Birds & Language
Wollongong derives its name for the local Dharawal word “Woolungah,” and the city’s Gallery is an apt venue for the exhibition Birds & Language given its location at the head of the long, narrow coastal strip of Illawarra, which supports some 350 bird species. Unfortunately, timber-felling in the region was an early industry of such […]
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Tagged Birds & Language, Danie Mellor, Deborah Porch, Emily Floyd, Joan Ross, John Wolseley, Louise Weaver, Raquel Ormella, Wollongong Art Gallery
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Justine Varga
Justine Varga’s rigorous and ruminative photographic practice transgresses conventional notions of photography.
Imants Tillers: As soon as tomorrow
In a statement accompanying the exhibition, Tillers notes that “It all began with the shock of a fire in 2019 which destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Could this have been a portent of the coming apocalypse? The devastating fires in Eastern Australia followed soon after, only to be eclipsed by a plague which is still […]
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Tagged Imants Tillers, painting, photography, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
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Guy Warren
Steve Lopes chats to Guy Warren in Issue 34 about his colourful life and career.
Beuys Alive
In Germany alone, the home of Beuys, the anniversary is being celebrated with exhibitions in twenty-eight locations. Worldwide, there are exhibitions across all continents including Australia, Japan, the United States, and numerous European countries. Especially in the Rhineland, and more precisely on the Lower Rhine, where the artist spent most of his life, the artist […]
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Tagged Beuys Alive, Joseph Beuys, MCA, Performance Art, Tom Nicholson, Wolfgang Zumdick
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Madeleine Pfull: Pfull Stop
For commuters in Sydney, 12 June 2015 was a sombre day. For it was on this day that the free, tabloid newspaper mX released their last published edition. For those who don’t know, mX was a pithy commuter newspaper that’s content comprised of “celebrity gossip” (if you regard what Neil Perry did with his ponytail […]
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Tagged Chalk Horse, Emma Finneran, Madeleine Pfull, painting, portraiture
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: Reflections on David Gulpilil
I first met David Gulpilil when we were both in our twenties, at Mataranka Caravan Park. David was dancing with a troupe from Bamyili Station to entertain the tourists. We went swimming together in the rainbow pool and David invited me to visit his traditional Country. Later, when he was famous I would often bump into […]
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August Carpenter
Most of The Actions of Storms; sleep movements, 2021, is taken up by black space – the deep, uninterrupted darkness that monotypes can produce. About four fifths of the way up the panel, a horizon line hosts a set of silent, rectilinear forms, drawn into being gently as if through a mist. Below or in front […]
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Tagged August Carpenter, Australian Galleries, printmaking
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Yvonne Boag
In Moruya Sunset 1, 2021, Yvonne Boag undertakes the painterly equivalent of holding the positive ends of two (or perhaps more – perhaps innumerable) magnets together. The logic of the painting is one of competing horizontal energies: charged shapes and colours are held in proximity, approaching each other impossibly, thrillingly. Sparks fly between a mercurial sweep of […]
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Tagged painting, Stella Downer, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, Yvonne Boag
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Amy Dynan
Sydney-based artist Amy Dynan uses a harmony of figuration and abstraction within her gestural skyscape artworks, revealing her approach of maximum expressivity. Dynan has been painting professionally since 2012, first capturing the likeness of her peers in hyperreal drawings. By 2017 she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts, […]
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Tagged Amy Dynan, Drawing, Emma-Kate Wilson, Lindy Lee, painting, Residency, Stanley Street Gallery
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David Frazer
The book Love Letter takes up the lyric mode of Nick Cave’s song of the same name, from the album No More Shall We Part. What, exactly, might it mean for visual art to partake of the lyric mode – a way of writing, and of reading, usually associated with poems in the first person, full of […]
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Tagged Australian Galleries, David Frazer
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Matisse: Life & Spirit
Was there a more prolific maker of unforgettable images than Matisse, at least in the twentieth century? The number of exceptional works he created, in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and his own medium of the paper cut-out, is astounding. He coaxed a wealth of aesthetic qualities from his materials and evolved a huge inventory of […]
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Tagged AGNSW, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Joe Frost, Matisse
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