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On a workbench sits a scale model of the exhibition space for an upcoming show at PALAS, Sydney. Rothschild looks into the model, then looks up and gestures to works-in-progress for the exhibition resting around the studio. Segments of rebar and jesmonite hang on the walls, and float at eye-and hand-levels in pieces on shelves […]

I met with Gary Deirmendjian in his studio, or one aspect of it at least, at a café in Sydney’s Kings Cross. He is self-described as an “urban animal,” and the streets form a diorama and the source for his creations. Consequently, Deirmendjian’s artistic practice rejects defined parameters, both in terms of medium and its […]

On his visit to Australia in 1968 the American art critic Clement Greenberg encouraged young artists to “enjoy their diversity”—advice Jock Clutterbuck appreciated. As a student and teacher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in the sixties and early seventies, Clutterbuck’s visual alignment was tuned to a multicultural modernism acquired from teachers that […]

When viewing the website of glass artist Nick Mount, the visitor will find the usual content headings, with the exception of “About us” which offers something quite out of the ordinary. There is a short bio followed by collections of photographs across six decades, from the 1970s to now. These images are of everyday life, […]

An African folktale was told to Jenny Orchard as a child, in which a woman follows an impossibly beautiful man into a forest. Against his warnings to turn back to the village she is transfixed and cannot, she watches in horror as his limbs are replaced by branches and leaves. He slowly transforms into the […]