Author Archives: Artist Profile
Out of the Myer
Twenty years on it is salutary to review what was achieved by the Myer Inquiry into the Visual Arts & Crafts sector.
Mavis Ngallametta
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that photographs in this article contain images of a deceased person.
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have, for twenty years, ambushed global notions of normality…
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Karla Dickens
A Wiradjuri woman living in regional New South Wales, Karla Dickens is known for her often provocative reflections on Australian culture, past and present.
Khaled Sabsabi
Khaled Sabsabi is a humble artist making work with open-ended questions…
Anna Glynn
Anna Glynn explores the fraught nature of colonial art, approaching the antipodean landscape as a stage for reflection and the reimagination of historical narratives.
Tiwi Artists
This summer, Tiwi art overtakes Melbourne in the largest ever exhibition of Tiwi art at the National Gallery of Victoria, as well as satellite shows throughout Victoria
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Soda_Jerk
Soda_Jerk’s film TERROR NULLIUS looks for the unspoken assumptions about Australian culture embedded in the annals of popular entertainment.
Shireen Taweel
Shireen Taweel’s latest exhibition ‘Switching Codes’ takes influence from multilingualism in Lebanon and Australia, embodying a philosophy of language that is poetic, transformative, and communal
Judy Watson
Judy Watson’s contemplative, original, seductive art exposes suppressed histories.
the TERRA within
Ambitiously, ‘The TERRA Within’ surveys the impact of colonisation since Captain Cook’s voyage to the east coast of Australia 250 years ago.
Lea Ferris
Lea Ferris’ new series of marble sculptures explores both the magic and mortality of the reef.
Peter Boggs
Peter Boggs has honed a visual language that unveils the secret and forgotten aspects of fast diminishing rural urban landscapes…
Here + Now
This year, ‘Here+Now’ is curated by Ngugi artist-scientist Stephanie Beaupark and responds to these themes of decolonisation, place and community.
Amos Gebhardt
Amos Gebhardt’s immersive multi-channel video works offer affective moments of exchange between viewer and artwork.
Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser
The exhibition ‘Destiny’ surveys an impactful body of work by Australian artist and activist Destiny Deacon.
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Issue 52
This issue’s cover artist Steve Lopes is important amongst those artists presently involved in a representation of humanity. Asserting that a realistic depiction of humanity must be physical and psychological, Lopes locates beauty in the uncomfortable, away from the theoretical, to provide room for emotion. An important development in his work is to balance opposing concepts: love and hate, freedom and conformity, so that the viewer engages both intellectually and instinctively
Simon Finn
Simon Finn’s practice has always oscillated between zones of sheer beauty and utter entropy.
Paul Trefry
A diminutive old man stares into the distance, his expression mildly quizzical, feeble and forlorn. His thin arms are folded behind his back…
Gary Carsley
At the time of my interview with Gary Carsley, events are unusually upended…
Chris Langlois
Chris Langlois has been painting dreamy, abstract landscapes for almost thirty years. His canvases reveal the magic of a horizon as the colours and light change.
Alexander McKenzie
In his new series, Alexander McKenzie continues his enduring engagement with imagined environments.
Earth Canvas
The Earth Canvas exhibition displays works by contemporary Australian artists, developed in response to regenerative farming.
Julian Meagher
Painter Julian Meagher is seeking calm with his new exhibition ‘Sleepwalking’ at Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.
