Author Archives: Artist Profile
Issue 47
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> EDITOR’S NOTE McLean Edwards said to writer Saskia Beudel, as they spoke in his studio, ‘We should be fearsome, us artists and writers. People should tremble when we enter the room.’ Few painters can […]
Paper Tigers
‘Paper Tigers: Posters From Sydney’s Long 70s’ is a celebration of Sydney’s dynamic poster art and public protest movements from the late 1960s to early ‘80s.
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged Chris O'Doherty, Garry Shead, Marie McMahon, Martin Sharp, National Art School, Paul Worstead, Reg Mombassa
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Louise Haselton
Over twenty-five years, South Australian artist Louise Haselton has established a largely sculptural practice in which no material is off-limits
Posted in Exhibitions, Profiles
Tagged Louise Haselton, SALA Festival, Samstag Museum
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Minky Opens A Gallery
Minky Opens A Gallery is a satirical take on the Sydney art establishment, submersing the audience into the alternatively glitzy and sordid world of art dealing. With a chameleon-like ability to transform herself, Wolman enacts all eighteen characters including Minky, a spoiled, sassy paparazzi magnet whose wealthy father has given her six weeks to make […]
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Tagged Minky Opens a Gallery, Sydney Fringe Festival
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Artist Profile X Guo Jian
Artist Profile presents new work by Chinese-Australian artist Guo Jian at Sydney Contemporary 2019.
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Tagged Guo Jian, Sydney Contemporary
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Monet: Impression Sunrise
‘Monet: Impression, Sunrise’ at the NGA brings together works from the impressionist master and other artists to examine the founding of an art movement.
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Tagged Claude Monet, Monet, National Gallery of Australia, nga
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Michelangelo Russo
Michelangelo Russo’s new series is the patient result of a year-long process of refinement.
Jo Bertini
Jo Bertini applies her deep knowledge of the Australian desert to the desert terrain of Abiquiú in Northern New Mexico.
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Who Runs the Artworld
Ann Finnegan reviews the book ‘Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics’.
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews
Tagged art book, Who Runs the Artworld
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Art + Money
John McDonald examines how prices are reaching absurd new heights at the same time as taste in contemporary art is plumbing new depths.
Stefan Dunlop
Stefan Dunlop’s artworks enigmatically turn the elements of visual design on their head.
Geoff Dyer
Hobart artist Geoff Dyer’s portraits will finally be seen together in his home town.
Rhys Lee
Rhys Lee – who typically chooses to let his art speak for itself – took time to sit down with Artist Profile and chat about his practice.
Mirra Whale
Mirra Whale’s new paintings find polysemy in the weight of objects.
Kirtika Kain
The practice of Indian-born Sydney-based artist Kirtika Kain examines how oppressive power structures have been enforced upon and embodied by generations before her.
Lucy Culliton
Artist Profile visited Culliton’s property and studio to experience the life she has cultivated that inspires her creative output.
Daisy Hamlot at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Daisy Hamlot’s bold canine paintings bring a wholehearted vibrancy to the CIAF in its tenth year.
Posted in Contents, Exhibitions, Profiles, Reviews
Tagged cairns indigenous art fair, CIAF, Daisy Hamlot
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I LOVE YOU MELISSA
A group show at Newcastle’s Lock-Up examines the lightness and the longing of love.
Posted in Contents, Exhibitions
Tagged Caitlin Dempsey, I Love You Melissa, Jodie Whalen, JUMAADI, Lucas Grogan, Marikit Santiago, The Lock-Up
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Samantha Everton
Anthea Polson Art surveys Everton’s photographic practice of post-colonial storytelling.
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Tagged anthea polson, photography, Samantha Everton
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Sam Sosnowski
‘Elemental’ is a series of mokulito prints. Why did you choose this method? Mokulito is very new and experimental, and I really enjoy this form of printmaking. It was developed in Japan by Ozaku Seishi, a professor of printmaking, only thirty or forty years ago. There’s an energy to the process of working with mokulito […]
Amber Boardman
In Issue 40, Amber Boardman discusses the idiosyncrasies of her practice inside and outside the studio.
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Tagged Amber Boardman, Australian artist, Australian painting
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Peter Hill’s Superfictions
In Issue 46, Judith Pugh discusses Peter Hill’s elusive ‘Superfictions’, which exist in the gap between installation art and literary fiction.
Posted in Essays
Tagged Peter Hill, Superfictions, Venice Biennale
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