Author Archives: Artist Profile
JOY HESTER: a recollection by Ken Whisson
When teenage Ken Whisson met artists Joy Hester, her husband Albert Tucker and the Reeds’ avant-garde circle in 1940s Melbourne, his creative education truly began.
Sui I Moana: Reaching Across the Ocean
Tales of migration and connection across the Pacific speak of cultural continuity and change.
Posted in Exhibitions, Reviews
Tagged Robin White, Ruha Fifita
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Idris Murphy | Drawing Breath
Working with monotypes, etchings, drawings and an exciting addition, heliographs, Idris Murphy’s practice is his own multifaceted language that speaks of the land.
Matthew Clarke
My name is Matthew Clarke and I was born in 1986. I live in a wooded hamlet near Warrnambool in south-west Victoria.
Stanthorpe Art Prize Win for Katherine Savage
A recent return to art is well rewarded.
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Open Field | Exhibition Tour
To expand a Utopian vision, Open Field is a two-staged exhibition with original work in the Peacock Gallery, and a replica of each work within Auburn’s Botanic Gardens.
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Inferno
Drawing from the dark humour of Dante’s Inferno, terrifyingly immersive could not be more apt for William Mansfield’s latest multi-sensory installation.
Paintings from Antarctica
Ken Done has switched from the warm palette of Australia to a much cooler palette in his travels to Antarctica.
Christopher Hodges | ‘Formal’
After a small interlude of just ten years, Christopher Hodges returns to the canvas in his latest exhibition ‘FORMAL’.
Issue 35 on sale now!
Taking a cue from Lindy Lee, Issue 35 explores artists that are fascinated with how we fit and exist in the world. Click here for a preview of who’s inside.
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The Mnemonic Mirror
Delving into the looking glass of ‘The Mnemonic Mirror’, a group of artists explore the changing complexities of memory in the digital age.
END OF AN ERA: 2016 Melbourne Art Fair cancelled
It was the end of MAF, or so we all thought.
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Tagged Melbourne Art Fair
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Laura Carthew | Immortal Flower
Growing, budding, blooming and dying, ‘Immortal Flower’ presents a quiet ode to the fragile states within the universal cycle of life and death.
Annette Bezor
Annette Bezor’s art-making process requires time and so she is now producing 10 paintings a year. She spoke to Artist Profile about ‘Precious Luck’.
Final lead up to the Fleurieu Art Prize
With only a few days until the announcement, the huge significance of the landscape award for the finalists is palpable.
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IT’S OUR THING – MORE HISTORY ON AUSTRALIAN HIP HOP
Focussing on graffiti and the origins of hip hop in Blacktown, It’s Our Thing, examines visual and sound artists Khaled Sabsabi and Minky Rawat.
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Brook Andrew
Photographer Brook Andrew is a great collector of artifacts and material objects, he explores how dominant cultures manipulate later generations through the images they leave behind as “history”.
Issue 34
Artist Profile Issue 34 from Artist Profile on Vimeo. Our front cover artist for this issue is the masterful abstract painter Michael Johnson. We take a deep look at the life and works of Guy Warren at 95 years of age. Sarah Contos is queried before her new animation installation in Adelaide. You might laugh […]
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Cool Burn
COOL BURN, a group exhibition, reflected the ephemeral beauty of the age-old practice, and its ongoing environmental importance.
David Griggs | Horror Business
Philippines-based David Griggs speaks about his new series of paintings, where putting his feelings and moods onto canvas is a new direction in his work.
Sophia Hewson | “are you ok bob?”
In her latest video performance work, Sophia Hewson engages with the male gaze at its most confrontational.
This Wild Song
Creating positive change, Ilona Nelson is inviting you to see Australian women artists through the lens of her perspective.
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Monica Rohan
Congratulations Monica Rohan, finalist in the 2016 Gold Award. Monica and her tumbling works featured in Issue 33.
Bruny Island Art Prize
Entries are open for the first year of the Bruny Island Art Prize.
