Author Archives: Artist Profile
Portraits Project
‘Portrait Project’ comes at a critical time when we are searching for a way to connect with each other.
2020 Telstra NATSIAA
This year, the exhibition of Australia’s longest running Indigenous art awards is entirely viewable online.
Teelah George
With hand and thread, Teelah George chisels open apertures between materiality and the immaterial.
Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini divides opinions with her hand-crafted hybrid objects that dissolve notions of pure entities or borders having ever existed.
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Tagged goma, hyperreal, hyperrealism, nga, Patricia Piccinini, sculpture
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Angus Nivison
Walcha artist Angus Nivison discusses painting three portraits of gallerist, collector and benefactor Chandler ‘Channy’ Coventry AM (1924–99).
Madeleine Pfull
Madeleine Pfull writes about her painting process – which involves imagining and imaging herself in future form.
Clifford How
Clifford How’s ‘Antipodean Light’ invites viewers on a solitary traverse across Tasmania’s north-western alpine wilds.
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Tagged Arthouse gallery, Clifford Howe, Plein Air
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Neil Frazer
There is a strong physical energy that comes through in Neil Frazer’s paintings that reflects not just their creation but also the process behind the works
Karla Dickens
Lismore-based Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens has long been involved in green politics. For Dickens it has all been said and no-one is listening – so now it is about taking time to listen to the land itself and to build a deeper understanding of Country.
Belinda Fox
Belinda Fox’s art is arresting in its intricate layering of detail and colour.
Emma Finneran
‘My studio is far from heavenly, and my practice nowhere near as ministerial, but I still see it as equally divine…’
Art Museums and COVID-19
The task facing the sector is to ensure that what emerges is proactive and aspirational rather than a mirror of our fears and apathy.
Damiano Bertoli
Personalities and figures from the counterculture movement of mid-century Italy collide with those from ancient Rome in the work of Damiano Bertoli.
Peter Cole
Peter Cole in many ways is a regional artist – albeit one who adopts a universal perspective in his art.
Hoda Afshar
Hoda Afshar is a Melbourne-based artist and scholar whose photographic practice straddles the line between staged image and reality.
Amber Wallis
Amber Wallis is a painter who breathes her soul into her work.
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Tagged Amber Wallis, Edwina Corlette Gallery
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Elisabeth Cummings
Elisabeth Cummings is not a painter with a single signature. Her work is delicately wrought, possessing a palette that sways from pale to bloodied.
Ken Unsworth
The work of Ken Unsworth is often labelled as conceptual. His first public solo exhibit saw him pale, bare and pinioned to the wall in a series of performance works that fused the fragility of flesh to the geometric thrust of sculptural form. Anthony Bond, in his new monograph on the artist, accurately points out that […]
John R Walker
John R Walker’s new series ‘Fireground’ presents a cycle of paintings pivoted on the age-old theme of destruction and rebirth.
Please Moore, can we have more? The Biennale of Sydney
Michael Young looks at the shortcomings of the Sydney Biennale’s digital offering during COVID-19.
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Tagged The Biennale of Sydney Nirin
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Tom Polo
It may be difficult to name an Australian painter who creates work with as much intellectual rigour as Tom Polo.
Centrifugal Force: The Biennale of Sydney
As an Asian in Australia I have always been aware of the fissures and cracks in the colonial project of White Australia.
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Tagged Sydney Biennale
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Art For The Next 50 Years
Writing after the death of Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol declared that ‘people will be discussing new beauty in Beuys as long as there are people.
Callum Morton
‘View from a Bridge’ at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is Callum Morton’s first show in Sydney in eight years.
