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Leila Jeffreys
In her first Australian solo exhibition in five years, Leila Jeffreys explores new territory.
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Merran Esson
The rustic characteristics of Merran Esson’s ceramics reference the impermanence of the objects that served as vital tools for farm survival.
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Susan Baird
Susan Baird’s paintings drift weightlessly between different realities
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Guan Wei
Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei stood deferentially in front of his self-portrait ‘Plastic Surgery’ (2015)…
Ella Dreyfus
‘Under Twenty-Seven’ by Australian artist Dr Ella Dreyfus is a powerful series of monochrome portraits capturing the spectacle of young boys becoming men.
Riley Beaumont
Queensland-born, Canberra-based artist Riley Beaumont revels in cage-rattling, prick-kicking and material dissent.
Elena Papanikolakis
Elena Papanikolakis weaves together the cultural histories of her Greek heritage with formative moments from her childhood in Australia.
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David Hayes
In his second solo exhibition, Brisbane-based artist David Hayes focuses his paintbrush on the human experience in our rapidly shrinking global village.
Graeme Drendel
There is something both humorous and unnerving in Graeme Drendel’s work, a tension between the familiar and the absurd.
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Shaun Hayes
Shaun Hayes investigates the relationship between throwaway objects and their ability to invoke memories.
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Sydney Contemporary 2019
Artist Profile is proud to be a Major Partner of Sydney Contemporary 2019, working with Defiance Gallery, Sydney to present Guo Jian’s exhibition of new works at this year’s fair. Image: L-R: Erin McFadden and Elli Walsh Artist Profile Sydney Contemporary 2019 booth, photography Artist Profile.
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Aida Tomescu
Aida Tomescu’s practice, honed over forty years, is compelled by the artist’s devotion to teasing out an idea over time.
Lottie Consalvo
Lottie Consalvo’s practice traverses painting, sculpture, performance, video and photography.
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Sonia Payes
Sonia Payes’ ‘Woman in Bronze’ explores creation, destruction, and transformation through a contemporary lens of growing environmental angst.
David Goldblatt
Annandale Galleries Director Bill Gregory met Goldblatt in 1995 in Johanesburg, where the artist took him out for a day out on ‘the reef’ – the stretch of small hills on which the city is built, once brimming with gold. ‘We visited a number of abandoned mine shafts and related sites that he wanted me […]
Sydney Contemporary
Sydney Contemporary, for the past four years, has been a microcosmic study of the Australian art market: its symbiotic relationship with international markets and its major galleries.
Suzanne Archer
A survey of Archer’s work at Campbelltown Arts Centre explores the decades-long practice of an artist committed to exploring the macabre, and even the morbid, as sources of lively creative potential.
Michael Candy
When visitors step in beneath the half-raised metal-shuttered doors, they are met with a cross between a heavy-metal workshop and a computer lab ringed with neat box-files as if deposited from an earlier analogue age. Hidden like the nest of a rare egret, at the back of all this, is the sleeping area that Candy […]
Christopher Langton
With their white carapaces forming a protective border against potential threat, the two figures in Christopher Langton’s sculptural installation Colony could be stand-ins for these perplexed scientists. The astronautical figures tentatively scan the surrounding scene but instead of strewn bodies they witness a fantastical haze of multi-coloured spiky spheres, tubular forms and gelatinous orbs at […]
Sally Anderson
Sally Anderson speaks about how the deeply autobiographical, the metaphorical and the observed intertwine in her painting practice.
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
There is a revolutionary mood in Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s new paintings. This Lao-Australian artist returned to the Mekong River to learn from its histories and sacred beliefs.
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Fiona Lowry
Artist Profile visits Fiona Lowry to discuss how the histories and stories of the Australian bush inform her contemporary renderings of landscape.
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
This year, Yolŋu artist Djambawa Marawili AM is the winner of the Telstra Art Award for his piece Journey To America (2018). Made of natural pigments on stringybark, the work reflects on Marawili’s recent travels throughout the United States promoting Yolŋu philosophy. It depicts the iconic Statue of Liberty, along with five different states of […]
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Dot Painting, indigenous art, NATSIAA
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