Author Archives: Artist Profile
Arlo Mountford
A mid-career survey of the work of Arlo Mountford that is playful, critical, disillusioned and optimistic.
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Tagged Arlo Mountford, Shepparton Art Museum
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Hot Blood
A group of artists who confound outmoded expectations about China, reflecting unflinchingly on the most uncomfortable truths of our age.
The National: New Australian Art
Three of Sydney’s major public art institutions showcase a multivalent multitude of new Australian art.
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Tagged AGNSW, Carriageworks, MCA, The National
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Simon Blau
Simon Blau is a softly-spoken, Sydney-based artist.
Alun Leach-Jones
Leach-Jones’s vibrant, inquisitive painting practice is celebrated in an exhibition remembering the great artist, teacher, and friend.
Adelaide//International
In partnership with the Adelaide Festival, the Samstag Museum calls four artists into an international, and interdisciplinary, conversation.
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Tagged Adelaide International, Brook Andrew, Eugenia Lim, Lisa Reihana, Ming Wong, Samstag Museum
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Love, Displaced
Seven artists and artist collectives look for reparative potential in the claim that screentime isolates, rather than connects, us. They all work, of course, in video.
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged AES+F, Cecilia Bengolea, Christian Thompson, Gary Hillberg, Jacobus Capone, Jeremy Deller, lawrence wilson gallery, love displaced, Richard Lewer, Roee Rosen, tracey moffatt
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Yhonnie Scarce
Yhonnie Scarce is a Kokatha and Nukunu artist who employs the medium of glass to dazzling effect
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Aboriginal Artist, Yhonnie Scarce
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Janet Laurence
For over three decades Janet Laurence has been engaging with humanity’s experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world.
Kaylene Whiskey
Kaylene Whiskey is an artist who is fast turning into a household name.
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Tagged Kaylene Whiskey, The National
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Tribute: Tony McGillick
In Issue 45 Paul McGillick reflects on the colourful life of his brother; the late Tony’s McGillick, whose passionate and expressive paintings celebrated the jouissance of painting and the emotion of colour.
Michelle Day
Michelle Day’s current solo exhibition ‘What Remains’ at A.N.C.A Gallery explores the beauty of life on a microcellular level.
Jackson Farley
Issue 44’s ‘Discovery’ artist Jackson Farley writes about his multidisciplinary practice, which spans printmaking, textiles, video and sculpture
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Darren Sylvester
Darren Sylvester mines the polished world of pop culture to construct narratives about contemporary ennui, pathos and mortality.
Issue 46
EDITOR’S NOTE Little over a year ago Angelica Mesiti achieved what most Australian artists desire: to be selected as Australia’s sole representative at the Venice Biennale. As this issue’s cover artist, only months before its May presentation in the Australia Pavilion, Mesiti spoke to Elli Walsh about her journey to the 58th Biennale di […]
Issue 45
Issue 45 of Artist Profile has reminded me of the value of independence, of the magazine and of its writers. The diversity of approaches and ideas, not only of the artists interviewed and reviewed, but of our contributors, makes me acutely aware that it is difference that binds us. Each article, independent and unpredictable, reflects the […]
Indigenous Art – Where Is It Going?
What Indigenous art needs most is a major exhibition in a world art capital, says John McDonald.
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Damien Hirst, Emily Kame Kngwarreye
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Bridgette McNab
Bridgette McNab’s tightly choreographed paintings unpack the enduring dialogue between painting and cinema that resounds with the language of illusion.
Sally Smart
Sally Smart’s immersive installation, ‘The Violet Ballet’, continues the South Australian-born artist’s investigation into avant-garde dance company The Ballets Russes
Nicole Welch
Artist Profile chats to Nicole Welch about the dualities that interlace her media-based practice.
Nancy Kunoth Petyarre
A survey exhibition of Nancy Kunoth Petyarre charts the spirited styles and stories for which this senior artist was renowned.
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Aboriginal Painting, Dot Painting, Nancy Kunoth Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre
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The Other Art Fair
In talking art after psychoanalysis and Said, the term ‘other’ might be the most wonderfully, acrobatically flexible word in the dictionary of artspeak.
Adam Geczy
Adam Geczy’s new series, ‘Just Clownin’ Around’ engages with the clown as a universal trope for our contemporary Zeitgeist.
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
Artist Profile travelled to Charlottesville in the United States to speak with Jenni Kemarre Martiniello.
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