Author Archives: Artist Profile
Linda Marrinon
Be prepared to be dazzled by Linda Marrinon. She’s an artist whose work is honest, considered and multi-levelled
Brendan Kelly
Like so many artists creating in the current moment, Brendan Kelly’s new series, ‘Trouble in the Order’, draws on the vicissitudes of 2020.
David Horton, Dale Miles, Stephanie Monteith
David Horton, Dale Miles and Stephanie Monteith make a persuasive case for artists following their curiosity irrespective of fashion. T
June Tupicoff
There’s an intuitive sensibility in the way June Tupicoff has approached her art-making.
Lindy Lee
In Issue 51, Courtney Kidd previewed Lindy Lee’s show ‘Moon in a Dew Drop’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Oscar Perry
In Issue 44, we visit the fascinating studio of Melbourne artist Oscar Perry
Lisa Roet
For thirty years, Lisa Roet’s work has been about primates and the environment we share; about global politics, ignorance, hatred, and personal connection.
Jo Davenport
‘Now more than ever I want to create a visceral bond, a connection between the viewer and our sublime Australian landscape.’
Anna Carey
For the Los Angeles-based Australian artist Anna Carey, architecture and photography serve as partial means to an
end…
McLean Edwards
McLean Edwards’ paintings are a form of portraiture he calls ‘emotional larceny’.
Surf Shack
George Gittoes and Hellen Rose have been given the keys to The Surf Shack for stage an interactive exhibition before the shack is demolished.
Sally M Nangala Mulda
Sally M Nangala Mulda’s depiction of her biographical truths in paint are a long way from the seductive romance of much regional Aboriginal art
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor’s expressionist compositions speak of an extraordinary intensity and energy maintained over a long and prolific oeuvre.
Joyce Campbell
Joyce Campbell’s interdisciplinary practice challenges the conventions and limitations of landscape representation.
Hiromi Tango
Hiromi Tango’s creative mission is to promote healing through her work.
Izabela Pluta
Underwater ruins and antiquated atlases form sites of inspiration for Polish-born Australian artist Izabela Pluta.
Michael McHugh
For more than three decades, Michael McHugh has been exploring the vase potential of colour, composition and abstract form with an inquisitive emphasis on the natural world.
Billy Bain
Billy Bain is an emerging artist who explores the medium of clay alongside painting and printmaking to unpack ideologies surrounding Australian masculinity
Nicholas Harding
The stuff of the physical world is what rules Nicholas Harding’s latest works.
Jude Rae
Jude Rae works in conversation with space and light, playing with the eye of the viewer as her works shift and coalesce between representation and abstraction.
Issue 51
Unavoidably, throughout this fifty-first issue of Artist Profile – which celebrates on the cover the revered painter Prudence Flint – there are many stories tracing the impact of COVID-19 on artists’ lives and work. We also consider what our public and private institutions are doing – or perhaps not doing – during this time. Ted Snell’s article Setting a course: art museums and COVID-19 proposes a new horizon from the pandemic.
Drew Pettifer
In his new body of works, Drew Pettifer interrogates the beginning of Australia’s queer history.
Joanna Braithwaite
ARTIST PROFILE speaks to Joanna Braithwaite in her Sydney studio about all that drives and inspires her.
The Nude Now
Erin McFadyen discusses the problematics and progressions of the nude in contemporary painting.

