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The best of the bunch
Kerry Johns has been awarded the 2016 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
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Issue 36
Issue 36’s cover artist is Reg Mombassa, one of Australia’s most popular and idiosyncratic artists. We speak with the talented creative force about a life lived well in the arts. Our writers also explore 19 other talented artists’ across Australasia including Kerrie Hughes, Ross Laurie, Paul Boston, Catherine O’Donnell and Karen Mills. ISSUE LETTER by […]
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Robyn Sweaney | Fade to Blue
Snapshots of the everyday preoccupy Robyn Sweaney’s paintings. She finds beauty in the suburban.
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Issue 37 on sale 10 November
Change matters in this issue of Artist Profile. Our cover artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn understands the dangers and happiness of change. And in our features we catch up with artists each at significant turning points in their careers.
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Reg Mombassa
He is one of Australia’s most popular and idiosyncratic artists. We speak with the talented creative force about a life lived well in the arts.
Adam Stone
My practice deals with the inherent desire of young people, particularly males, towards risk-taking behaviour as a means of understanding themselves and their place in the world…
Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Armstrong’s exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria is a beguiling anthology of strange beings.
Enter to Win… Reg Mombassa: Landscapes
Enter for a chance to win Reg Mombassa’s latest book…
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Dressed up for the Win
Megan Seres and Johannes Reinhart win the 2016 Moran Art Prizes.
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Evan Salmon
Evan Salmon explains his attachment to ships and industrial buildings, and the colour arrangements that emerge in his practice.
The Art Rant | Reg Mombassa
When asked what an artist is, I offer up my nine descriptors: beggar, prostitute, liar, thief, nutcase, addict, wanker, parasite and minor deity.
Heath Franco
Heath Franco draws upon horror movies of the 80s and 90s, Ren & Stimpy cartoons, popular culture and memory to create the wild, grotesque characters that populate his video works.
2016 Black Swan Prize
From the People’s choice to the main prize, the winners and grinners of the 2016 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture have been announced.
2016 Moran Prizes Finalists Announced
From the bold to the beautiful – finalists have been selected for this year’s 2016 Moran Prizes.
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Ross Laurie
Having travelled to the other side of the world and back seeking his source as a young artist, Ross Laurie finally found mature inspiration where he started, in the melancholic light around Walcha.
Nike Savvas | ’17 Seconds’
Nike Savvas continues to push her work to new directions with ’17 Seconds’, as she explores the process behind remembering in her latest geometric works.
Anne Graham: Whispering and Rustling
With a career spanning three decades and four continents, ‘Whispering and Rustling’ is a welcome and overdue exhibition of Anne Graham’s work.
Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin graced the cover of Issue 32, speaking with John McDonald about the powerful abstraction at play in his dark interiors.
Nicole O’Loughlin
My fascination with decay and growth began at an early age, being raised on a dairy farm in Victoria. I was exposed to and in direct contact with the sequence of life…
Wildthing
Opening at Mosman Art Gallery this October, ‘Wild Thing’ sets out to unleash our curiosities and take us for a walk on the wild side.
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Catherine O’Donnell
It’s been an exciting year for Catherine O’Donnell. Currently in the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016 and her latest exhibition opening this October.
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Wanda Gillespie
Wanda Gillespie plays with space, memory and time as she transports the viewer to an imagined future in ‘Levitation Practice’.
2016 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Winner Lucy O’Doherty’s surreal landscapes evoke an aching mystery of Australian suburbia – with silent pastel houses situated in remote landscapes.
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