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Issue 22
Ben Quilty paints like there’s no tomorrow. In an exclusive interview and photo shoot for the cover feature of Issue 22, we speak with Quilty about his studio and creative life after his Afghanistan tour as Australia’s offical war artist. In a revealing and intimate interview, Quilty talks of his motivations and ambitions as a painter and for the Australian cultural landscape. Also in the issue, Andrew Browne talks to us about his cinematic-like paintings that portray the sometimes invisible edges of society; and Destiny Deacon whose photographic work speaks strongly for contemporary indigenous concerns. Plus many more artist studio visits, essays, opinions and reviews from around the country…
Art Stage Singapore
The third edition of Art Stage Singapore took place at the end of last week and featured some 131 galleries from around the world, with 12 of those from Australia.
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Pressure Makes Diamonds: Julian Meagher
Julian Meagher’s latest exhibition features a series of artistic renderings of the Papua New Guinean birds-of-paradise
Terrestrial by Declan O'Doherty
Terrestrial is a culmination of O’Doherty’s exploration into the desert environment using memory as the primary tool to capture a strikingly dynamic, emotive response to the Australian landscape.
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Issue 21
Issue 21’s cover artist is Sydney Ball – a stalwart of Australian painting, who’ devoted his career to colour and abstraction. On the other end of the colour spectrum is Kevin Lincoln, who paints in the still life mode looking at the darker side of contemporary living. In time for summer-holiday ready, we have essays […]
Oliver Stokes Hughes: Dark Matter
Oliver Stokes Hughes will present his first exhibition Dark Matter with Sheffer Gallery, to open on Tuesday December 11. The show will feature fourteen etchings and one bronze sculpture, an exciting first display for the artist whose work surveys the phenomena of natural landscapes, skyscapes and the psychological imagery of illusions and empty rooms. Director […]
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New World Art Prize
The Chippendale Creative Precinct has announced a new award, designed to encourage entrants to present a vision of the future; urban renewal and new technologies.
Allora & Calzadilla with Kaldor Art Projects
Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for Prepared Piano is a performance art work devised by Puerto Rican-based collaborative artists Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla and is the 26th Kaldor Public Art Project, being presented in the Cowan Gallery of Melbourne’s State Library of Victoria.
Andy Quilty: FIFO @ Linton and Kay Galleries
Andy Quilty will be presenting his 3rd solo show with Linton and Kay Galleries, entitled FIFO, featuring more than 40 works.
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Alcaston at Depot Gallery, Sydney
Alcaston Gallery has a stellar reputation for fostering and supporting some of the best in contemporary indigenous Australian art, and until October 27, Sydneysiders will be able to view five of their most exciting new artists in a special showing at Depot Gallery, 2 Danks Street. On display will be the work of Emily Evans, Sally Gabori, Clinton Nain, the late Womikinimirri Puruntatameri and Cornelia Tipuamantumirri.
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Gregory Crewdson Lecture
Offering a surreal view of middle America, Gregory Crewdson’s photographs are dramatically stylized scenes that some have compared to the melancholic paintings of Edward Hopper and the gothic films of David Lynch.
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BEAMS arts festival: Chippendale
Head down to Balfour Street, Chippendale on September 22nd for the BEAMS Festival, a creative spectacular hosted by the Chippendale Creative Precinct (CCP), for one night only.
Issue 20
Issue 20 is our Fifth Anniversary Edition, with an extra 24 pages in the magazine to celebrate this milestone.
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2012 artsHub Awards
Nominations for the annual artsHub Awards are now open. The awards are intended to recognise both creation and support in the arts industry, of work that is “exciting, engaging or simply excellent”.
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Issue 19
Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition Media Partner of the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Issue 19 of ARTIST PROFILE is a Special Edition that focuses on artists exhibiting at the fair. On the cover is internationally renowned Sally Smart, whose work is based upon the principles of painting but extrapolated conceptually and rendered in an unusual […]
Artist Profile at MAF 2012
Visit Artist Profile at the Melbourne Art Fair – 1 to 5 August, 2012 – Stand M01, ground floor.
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Facial at TCB Art Inc.
Portraiture artists Matthew Hopkins, Mary MacDougall and Tom Polo have a common thread running through their individual practices: an interest in celebrating subjects undergoing visual transformations. Working across varied mediums and stylistic agendas, Hopkins, MacDougall and Polo produce portraits suspended between abstraction and simple representational forms. At the core of Matthew Hopkins’ current body of […]
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Issue 18
By flicking through the pages of our current edition, you will notice it is a break from our standard format. That’s because many of the artists featured in the issue took part in an artist expedition to the arid desert of north-west New South Wales, sponsored by ARTIST PROFILE in conjunction with artist material specialists […]
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SUB12 Newport in its third year running
“Twelve Artists, Twelve Weeks, Twelve Ambitious New Works,” runs the slogan for SUB12. An annual three month long exhibition in its third year running, SUB12 brings together some of the most interesting names in Australian contemporary art under the roof of south-west Melbourne’s iconic Newport substation. The exhibition presents an experimental mix of sculpture, painting, […]
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Not the Way Home | 13 Artists Paint the Desert
Not the Way Home | 13 Artists Paint the Desert opens at the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
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Angus Wood: Ghosts of Oblivion
Contemporary painter, Angus Wood, offers work that blends Romanticism’s horror and awe with an extreme sublimity. His work is characterised by pits of darkness, which allude to a hyper-real realm where the human condition falls prey to the enormity of the natural environment. In his latest body of work, Wood’s emotive agenda centres on human […]
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Laura Jones | Discovery | Issue 19
Our issue 19 Discovery Artist, Laura Jones, recorded the making of her portrait Elliot. Check out the time-lapse video by Andrew Walsh. ‘chequered shirt with pocket’ from Andy Walsh on Vimeo.
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Creative Australia Fellowships announced
Getting your ‘break’ as an emerging artist can be tough. Thanks to the Australia Council for the Arts, however, it just got a little bit easier. Creative Australia Fellowships is a major new initiative to help unearth budding talent and enrich established. As part of the Federal Government’s Creative Australia Grants Initiative, $10 million will […]
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Then there was Kelly Doley: the underdog of the Redlands Art Prize
Ben Quilty has won the prestigious Redlands Art Prize with his portrait of his elderly father.
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