Author Archives: Artist Profile
Lynda Draper
The whimsical earthenware sculptures of Lynda Draper create a beguiling space where visuality mingles with tactility.
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Peter Day
Peter Day’s multi-disciplinary practice observes a place somewhere between the technological and the terrestrial.
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Tagged Gallery Lane Cove, Peter Day
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Tribute: Debra Porch
In Issue 47, Ian Were writes a tribute piece about the contagious incandescence and vitality of his late partner, artist Debra Porch (1954–2017).
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Tagged Debra Porch, UNSW Galleries
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Hans and Nora Heysen
The NGV showcases a father and daughter working over the advent of Modernism in Australia.
Kawita Vatanajyankur
Kawita Vatanajyankur’s work explores the burdens of hard physical labour expected of women in traditional Thai society.
Heather Shimmen
Heather Shimmen weaves the historical and the utopian together in a mythic landscape of the mind.
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Tagged Erin McFadyen, Gippsland Art Gallery, heather Shimmen, Ladies of the Pleiades
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Jennifer Joseph
Jennifer Joseph’s work is the emotively charged product of a life lived at full, nocturnal, intensity.
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Joe Frost
Joe Frost gives his paintings a kind of autonomy; they want to be or become things that are partially obscure to him.
An Era that Changed Us
Published in 2017, Sally Gray’s ‘Friends, Fashion and Fabulousness’ presents an account of the effervescent 1970s Australian cocktail of change.
Tim McMonagle
Tim McMonagle intimately confronts both the fragile and robust nature of life. Artist Profile spoke to McMonagle in his Melbourne studio for Issue 46.
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Tagged Edwina Corlette Gallery, Tim McMonagle
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Bill Henson
Tenderness is at the centre of the portraiture and landscape works in Bill Henson’s solo show at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
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Philippa Nikulinsky
Examining the fault lines at the juncture between art and nature, Philippa Nikulinsky’s decades-long practice is shown in its full nuance and plurality at Lawrence Wilson Gallery.
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Kim Guthrie
Kim Guthrie’s solo exhibition at USC Gallery, ‘River’s Edge’, interrogates relationships between people and place.
Joseph Haxan
Adelaide-based artist Joseph Haxan chats about suburbia, the Occult, Photoshop and the flimsy border between ‘Humanity’ and ‘Nature’.
Richard Bell at the Tate Modern
Michael Young chats to Richard Bell about his failed Venice proposal and his forthcoming exhibit at London’s Tate Modern.
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Scott Redford
In his new series of works, presented at Fireworks Gallery, Scott Redford voices his ongoing ruminations about the misgivings of ‘contemporary art’.
Tony Costa
In Issue 43, 2018, Tony Costa wrote about his obsessive affiliation with the Australian landscape.
Tom Nicholson
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) hosts the first major survey of the work of Tom Nicholson, an influential Australian artist whose socially engaged practice has traversed drawing, sculpture, and participatory installation for over twenty years.
Sam Holt
Sam Holt chats about his latest series of visceral paintings and sculptures.
Francesca Zak
Issue 45’s ‘Discovery’ artist Francesca Zak discusses how she engages with technological detritus in her practice.
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Idris Murphy | The art of the heliograph
In Issue 39, Idris Murphy enlightened us on the art of the heliograph – a lesser-known part of his practice and complimentary process to his approach to landscape painting.
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Andrew Antoniou
London-born Andrew Antoniou is an artist and teacher whose drawing practice examines the theatrical incongruities, and ambiguities, of human experience.
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Eyes on Australia
‘Eyes on Australia’ in North Carolina builds a showing of our statehood through lenses of femininity and cultural diversity.
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Tagged Eyes on Main Street, Hoda Afshar, Honey Long Prue Stent, Karla Dickens, Marcelle Bradbeer, Raphaela Rosella, Tamara Dean
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Ildiko Kovacs
Ildiko Kovacs’ beautifully resolved abstractions are the work of an artist fully in control of her craft, yet willing always to take the risks needed to transform those paintings into art.
