Author Archives: Artist Profile
Patricia Piccinini
It has taken some time for the Australian art world to get its own head around the genetically challenging and often startling creatures and concepts of Patricia Piccinini’s art.
The 2017 Salon Des Refusés Finalists
The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection
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Fabian Knecht | Nite Art
Known for setting the roof of the Neue National galerie Berlin alight in 2014, Nite Art brings Berlin based artist Fabian Knecht to present for one night.
Kate Baker
Human fragility is echoed in form and content in Kate Baker’s latest exhibition ‘Within Matter’.
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Tilt | Belinda Fox & Neville French
Long time friends Neville French and Belinda Fox embark on a collaborative journey that explores the emotive metaphor of the sea.
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Light and Space
Light and arrangement of form alter our perspective and sense of space in two concurrent exhibitions at Turner Galleries.
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Fiona McMonagle
As an artist, what remains consistent is McMonagle’s embrace of the challenge, and it is this that sets her up to be as tenacious and intriguing as the subjects she portrays.
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2017
Central Australian artist Margaret Loy Pula has won the 2017 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
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Island of Misfits | Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes returns with ‘Island of Misfits’, exploring mysterious, imagined landscapes and their curious newcomers.
Jenny Orchard Wins 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award
Congratulations to long standing ceramicist Jenny Orchard, winner of the biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Art Award.
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Margaret Loy Pula
Margaret Loy Pula concentrates her vision of a captivating experience on a somewhat finite area.
Fred Braat | Happening
In the lead up to his happening Fred Braat reflects upon the process of his multidisciplinary practice.
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Australasian Painters 2007 – 2017
Open until 10 September, head to Orange to see a major survey of over 140 contemporary Australasian painters and their paintings.
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Frank Nowlan
Glenn Barkley interviews Frank Nowlan about his early years as an artist, his practice now pushing the artistic mode to examine what this life is about.
Arthur Apanski | Anthropocene
Arthur Apanski wants to make art about light. He seeks to open our senses to truths about excess, corruption and absence of empathy.
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Michael Kempson | Child’s Play
With a nod to printmaking this quarter with Issue 39 ‘Painters who Print’, we look at one of our contributors Michael Kempson – a longstanding and instrumental printmaking figure in the Australian art industry – presenting new work both at home and overseas this June and July.
Issue 39 | Painters Who Print
This issue of Artist Profile focuses on painters who make prints. We want to understand a painter’s relationship to the rather mystical powers of printmaking and the social and cultural engagement implicit in printmaking, which have left their mark on the work of many painters
The National
International showcases for contemporary art are now so prolific, and frequent, that they risk falling into the “blockbuster” trap of becoming a franchise.
Ainsley Wilcock
My work is concerned with the grotesque as it relates to the body trace.
John Firth Smith
John Firth-Smith is an abstract painter of expansive meditations in space, shapes reminiscent of boats and shorelines and objects on and around the littoral zone…
Joe Frost
Joe Frost’s paintings are the product of an encounter between the artist and the outside world arrived at through experimentation with paint.
George Tillianakis
“A wind is sweeping away my life. I close my eyes so I don’t see you leave. Somewhere night is falling, don’t cry, it’s OK. Just say it’s the end of the world.”
Anna Platten
Anna Platten’s impetus to tell engaging stories led her to early Western high narrative painting traditions, partly for their craftsmanship where she says “you can see the glistening on nails”, and mostly for their symbolism.
