Author Archives: Artist Profile
Baldessin/Whiteley
‘Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions’ brings together the work of two major figures of 20th-century Australian art, for the first time.
Rick Amor
While Rick Amor is best known for his evocative paintings, printmaking is a vital part of his practice.
Ali McCann
In Issue 43, Melbourne artist Ali McCann speaks about the unique processes behind her carefully constructed photographs, videos and sculptural works.
Amanda Penrose Hart
Returning home to Brisbane for the first time in thirteen years, Amanda Penrose Hart presents a new series of landscape paintings for her inaugural exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art. Drawing inspiration from extensive travels, Penrose Hart paints en plein air and in her studio, harnessing felt sensation and remembered experience to capture not only the […]
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Issue 44 Hits the Stands!
The response to Artist Profile over time has shown that getting behind artists and their art matters to you as it does to us. To ensure we’re evolving with you and the ever changing artistic landscape of Australasia, the magazine has embarked on some exciting changes. After ten years with nextmedia, Artist Profile has changed […]
VALE Charles Blackman
Remembering the incredible life of Charles Blackman OBE, who has passed away one week after his 90th birthday.
Alexander McKenzie
The first major survey exhibition of Alexander McKenzie showcases forty-two major works tracing a luminous career in painting.
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Tagged Alexander McKenzie, Hazelhurst Arts Centre
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Geoffrey de Groen
Geoffrey de Groen says he’s endlessly interested in ‘silence, stillness, darkness’
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Tagged Annandale Galleries, Geoffrey de Groen
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TarraWarra Biennial
The 2018 TarraWarra Biennial harnesses the wild, intangible forces that animate behaviour.
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Tagged TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art
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Ryan Presley
Ryan Presley’s new series is the fruit of one month spent in the Nancy Fairfax Artist-in-Residence Studio.
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Caroline Rannersberger
The poetic paintings of Caroline Rannersberger distill the dualities of the natural landscape; that it is immovable yet in flux, timeless and palpably present.
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Tagged Caroline Rannersberger, Flinders Lane Gallery
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William Robinson
In his 82nd year, William Robinson remains committed to taking his paintings into new territory.
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Tagged Australian painter, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Willaim Robinson
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Patricia Wilson-Adams
‘Stain me with the intensity of black’ surveys the multidisciplinary practice of Patricia Wilson-Adams.
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New Sacred
‘New Sacred’ explores ritual and folklore in contemporary Australian art.
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Tagged Cigdem Aydemir, Elena Papanikolakis, Keg de Souza, Khadim Ali, Marikit Santiago, Mehwish Iqbal, Mosman Art Gallery, Salote Tawale, Shireen Taweel
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Ian Friend
Ian Friend’s works on paper hark back to the soft light and chalky landscape that washes across time, space and place.
Daneha
‘Daneha’, translating to ‘seeds’, explores the identities and stories of the Afghan community in Blacktown.
Primavera 2018
Congratulations to this year’s artists selected to take part in the 27th annual ‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA).
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Tagged Andrew Tenison, Caroline Garcia, Hayley Millar-Baker, Hoda Afshar, Jason Phu, MCA, Phuong Ngo, Primavera, Primavera 2018, Ryan Presley, Spence Messih
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Yalingwa
The inaugural Yalingwa exhibition celebrates the significance of family, community and humour in contemporary Aboriginal life.
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Andrew Clarke
Adelaide artist Andrew Clarke chats to Artist Profile about his colour-focused new series of paintings, ‘Mephistopheles’ Yellow Vacuum Cleaner’.
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Tagged Andrew Clarke, Hill Smith Gallery, SALA Festival
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Kristian Laemmle-Ruff
Melbourne artist Kristian Laemmle-Ruff focuses his lens on the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), drawing attention to violent imperialist activities that scar the beautiful Country of the Kokatha people.
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Tagged Araluen Arts Centre, Kristian Laemmle-Ruff
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Fred Cress
Australian Galleries and Annette Larkin present a solo exhibition of works by the late Fred Cress, marking what would have been the artist’s 80th birthday.
Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes constructs a world of transitory figures, travellers and storytellers searching for the unknown.
Michael Lindeman
Michael Lindeman’s latest series, ‘An Awkward Dance’, invites the viewer to poke and prod institutional authority.
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Tagged Michael Lindeman, Sullivan and Strumpf
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Khadim Ali
Michael Young discusses the complex, politically-fuelled practice of Khadim Ali in Issue 40.
