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Artist Profile is a proud sponsor of the Flying Arts Alliance: Art for Life Award
Artist Profile is a proud sponsor of the Flying Arts Alliance: Art for Life Award. The theme for the 2024 QRAA is Resolution. Artists and society as a whole grapple and confront multiple viewpoints and concepts requiring resolution. Through the creative process, artists take this voyage through differing personal and social lenses to reach a meaningful […]
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Peter Godwin: Space, Light and Time
Dark and alive with momentum and verve, there is something extraordinarily immediate in Godwin’s play across the picture plane. Channelling the eighteenth century master of the still life, Jean Siméon Chardin, with tightly stepped horizontals that give incremental and fine depth, the foreground is abundantly realised as a world of amassed objects, furniture, clutter, art, […]
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Hypersonic Realism: The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa
Introducing this revised 2024 edition of The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa, Reg explains with a characteristically wry twist, that Hypersonic Realism is a new art movement relating to “the extremely high-speed landscape drawings that I create in moving cars. Hypersonic missiles travel faster than the speed of sound and this explains why, when I am […]
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The phantom of Buñuel in that obscure object of desire, Daaaaaalí!
Daaaaaalí! is directed by the electronic musician and DJ turned director, Quentin Dupieux, who established a deserved cult following with his 2010 film, Rubber. For those unfamiliar with Dupieux’s filmography, Rubber is about a sentient tire that has telekinetic powers and develops a penchant for exploding heads. While not his first film, Rubber left its […]
Khaled Sabsabi
In 2022, dual survey shows by Khaled Sabsabi were presented, with Campbelltown Arts Centre hosting Khaled Sabsabi: A Hope and the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, staging Khaled Sabsabi: A Promise. These messages gave voice to Sabsabi from the west, where he lives, to the east of the city where he found refuge—a hope and […]
Tony Hanning: Into the light
Technically adventurous and not anchored in a particular narrow “signature style,” Hanning emerges from this exhibition that covers forty years of his work as primarily a storyteller—albeit he tells stories that frequently lack a linear narrative. What is apparent in this exhibition is that Hanning is very much a Gippsland product; born, raised, and still […]
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30 Years of Arthouse
In late 2024, Arthouse Gallery celebrates thirty years at its McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, address but the concept for Arthouse—which originally held the name Arthouse: Art for the People—was born in a corner terrace house in Paddington thirty-one years ago. The terrace belonged to Ali Yeldham’s mother and had been hastily vacated by a florist […]
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Namedropping
Namedropping does not mean anything if you do not recognise the reference. It means nothing. Yes, of course, you could look it up if you wanted to. Or be educated by the app that tells you how to look at the works. But I did not. I just looked and hoped I’d get overwhelmed and […]
Richard Larter
There’s no painter quite like Richard Larter (1929-2014). After emigrating from Britain with his wife Pat and young family in 1962 and settling in Luddenham on the semi-rural outskirts of Sydney, Larter had his first exhibition at Watters Gallery in 1965. Over the next decade, he became a renegade in the Australian art scene (represented […]
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Artists for Médecins Sans Frontières
75 Australian artists have donated artworks to be auctioned online, with all proceeds from the sales going to the medical humanitarian response in Sudan run by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The auction page will be live from 25th November – 1st December 2024. Full list of participating artists Adam Lee; Adrian Hobbs; Alexandra Standen; […]
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Sarah Contos: Eye Lash Horizon
Eye Lash Horizon is the first solo exhibition by Sarah Contos in a major public institution. Occupying the full ground floor of UNSW Galleries, Contos has spent a year preparing four rooms of installations, each named for an anatomical or metaphysical theme—Brain; Womb; Belly; Soul—and each with its own distinct character, materials, and influences from […]
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Joanna Braithwaite: Thinking With Animals opening night
Humans have been painting animals for at least 45,000 years. We celebrate and honour them, we fear and plead upon them, we employ, deploy, and eat them, and we are them. And never more so than in the work of Joanna Braithwaite. Beautiful, pompous, ridiculous, shy, curious, smart, sexy, funny, social, hierarchical, scared, lonely, competitive, […]
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CEMENTA24
But it’s as much a question of participating and listening. Guest curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham with First Nations curator Jo Albany, this sixth Cementa inevitably had a queer twist. A surprising highlight was Melbourne-based, rural-born performance artist Georgia Banks’ Debutante Ball, 2024. Based on the ritual of girls presented to community patriarchs like so […]
Dhambit Munuŋgurr
All too few white Australians are aware of the cornucopia of cultural complexities that flourish in the Top End of their country. Despite the best efforts of Anglo settlers and maniacal missionaries to eradicate the languages, beliefs and natural creativity of such peoples as the Yolngu, who hail from north-eastern Arnhem Land, the culture(s) have […]
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Logos / Λογότυπα
Walking into Logos / Λογότυπα is to enter a nebula explosion. It is a kosmos—there are worlds within worlds. It is a rich textural space full of emotions, references, messages and meanings. It is alive and about aliveness, responsiveness, action, and encounter. It gathers forty Greek-Australian artists (including two received by the Greek Orthodox Church […]
Dylan Sarra
As for so many, making art is a positive childhood memory for Taribelang and Gooreng Gooreng artist Dylan Sarra. Sarra was born in Bundaberg, central Queensland, went to school in Gladstone, and recalls “bouncing between those two places” during his early life. One morning at kindergarten he was invited by the teacher to create a […]
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Issue 68
Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work. EDITOR’S NOTE Abstraction is in a mature period of contemplation. Throughout this issue of Artist Profile there are insightful and variable perspectives on this subject. Ken Unsworth, this issue’s cover artist, is the maestro of abstraction. […]
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America Decides
I’ve always had a fascination with America, especially through its literature, reading Burroughs, Kerouac, and my favourite, Hunter S. Thompson. I studied art in New York at the Art Students League and ended up working with American satirical institution Mad magazine, a potent mirror of daily American society and its tropes. As a young artist […]
Brent Harris
Brent Harris’ studio is adjacent to Gertrude Glasshouse, the experimental satellite venue of Gertrude Contemporary. Apart from chance meetings at Tolarno Galleries openings, we haven’t really had much chance to talk since we were both doing residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, in 1994. We climb the stairs to his studio – and […]
Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness
Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness begins YAM’s explosion of light. Towering over you, “glitchy” inflatable trees in hues of pink, purple, and red are adorned with static images familiar to those who have experienced analogue TV finding a signal. Blocking the entrance for an immersion in the exhibition. The light radiates throughout […]
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Artist Nicole Kelly wins the 2024 Evelyn Chapman Art Award for young painters
Kelly was selected from a finalist group of six artists who submitted up to three paintings and an education proposal to a judging panel comprising artist Ann Cape, artist Yvonne Langshaw, and artist and Head of the Royal Art Society of NSW Art School, Greg Hansell. Kelly’s winning work, Dance of March Flies is an […]
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Artist Lori Pensini wins the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2024
Pensini says that her creative career began “as a young jillaroo painting landscapes and Animalia”. It is no surprise then, that many of her works depict animals in Australia’s semi-arid landscape. Pensini also paints portraits. Bringing these two subjects together has produced a portrait that feels both real and surreal – familiar but also unfamiliar. […]
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New Directions for University Museums
University museums are a significant and diverse sector within the broader museum community, embracing visual arts, natural history, ethnography, science and technology, social history, medicine, archaeology and classics, all within a university setting and construct. It is estimated there are more than 3,500 university museums spread across all populated continents. Some act as local, state, […]
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Jude Rae
In October 2024, Jude Rae will present her fourth solo exhibition with Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane. New works will include eight, large, still life paintings; plant paintings of fiddle leaf figs from the artist’s studio; as well as smaller still life paintings and drawings. The exhibition will also give Brisbane viewers an opportunity to see […]
