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Art Stage Singapore
Last week and weekend saw the inaugural installation of Art Stage Singapore – the newest player in the art fair market for our region. With a focus on the Asia Pacific art scene, Australian galleries played a significant role with some six local galleries exhibiting at the 5 days fair. Galleries included GBK (Sydney), Conny Dietzschold […]
‘On This Island’ @ King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
Please join us for the opening of our sponsored artist tour and exhibition “On This island, Meeting and Parting”.
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On this Island, Meeting and Parting | Curator’s Note
Introduction essay from the On this Island, Meeting and Parting exhibition catalogue.
Seasons Greetings from the ARTIST PROFILE team!
With thanks to all our readers and supporters for a wonderful year, we wish you all a happy and safe festive season surrounded by family and friends. We look forward to bringing you more, next year, from the artists behind the art. Issue 14, on sale, February 2011.
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On This Island @ Bowen Galleries, Wellington
Bowen Galleries, Wellington, has kindly taken on a small satellite show of works by eight of our participating artists.
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Kate Hopkinson-Pointer_Gallery@28
Vast skies and endless ocean – both are iconic elements of the Australian landscape. They are also the subject matter of Kate Hopkinson-Pointer’s latest collection. A master colorist, her large-scale canvases dominated by Prussian and cobalt blues, are entry into a watery world both dream-like in mood and epic in nature. “Dream-like” is a phrase […]
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Expressionist Art In Leicester @ New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
On a recent trip to the UK we came across an exquisite collection of Expressionist works that are held by the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester. The Leister collection is unique and internationally renowned in its focus on German expressionist art. The origins and development of the collection were the result of a […]
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BEYOND THE FIELD @ BONDI PAVILION GALLERY
Maria Gorton, Matthew Allen and Marisa Purcell first met at Sydney College of the Arts in 2006 when undergoing their Masters of Visual Arts under the supervision of Lindy Lee. The artists shared a fascination with colour field painting, the sublime and the philosophy of nonduality. Their paintings unite in this exhibition through an exploration of colour and space, light […]
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KUDOS AWARD!
The annual award for COFA artists and designers will be announced next Tuesday! The major prize is $1500 with runner up prizes including a fully subsidised exhibition in 2011 at Kudos Gallery, a space in the amazing PYD Design markets, an Ariel bookshop and Matisse product vouchers, a subscription to Artist Profile magazine, a Sherman […]
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Issue 13
Featuring Judy Watson Marco Fusinato Also Inside Luisa Rossitto Nathan Taylor Joshua Yeldham Tom Carment Theo Strasser Jayne Dyer Plus Essays, Reviews, News John Mcphee on Stephen Benwell Joe Frost on the Teaching of Art Steve Lopes on Leon Kossoff
Firstdraft Gallery
Firstdraft – one of Sydney’s many successful artist-run, not for profit, gallery spaces – is currently divided into four gallery spaces. On exhibition are Barbara Knezevic, Kirra Jamison, Giselle Stanborough and Jai McKenzie. Each artist is using their space independently of one another and the result is four wonderful exhibitions of varying mediums. In gallery […]
Issue 12
Our Issue 12 cover artist George Gittoes tells of his award-winning career as a painter and documentary maker in the world’s most troubled hotspots. We also meet with feminist icon Deborah Kelly; Tim Maguire unveils his latest foray into film; and Joe Frost discusses bad language in art criticism. Featuring George Gittoes Deborah Kelly Also Inside […]
NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize
This year sees the inaugural NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize. With its theme asking artists to explore New South Wales landscape in focus, the prize was established to compliment the three year old NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Painting Prize. Chair of the Community Relations Commission, Stepan Kerkyasharian, saw the competition as an opportunity to explore not only the […]
Jane Gillings @ NG Art, Gallery
Come Closer (Now Go Away) is the latest solo exhibition by Jane Gillings at NG Art Gallery, Sydney. The work that forms this exhibition is the recycling of and engaging with – what some would call – hoarded waste. Gillings compulsively collects and, by her own admission, hoards before she reassembles by way of embracing and engaging […]
John R Walker responds to Joe Frost's article “Bad words and thoughts”, Issue12:
IN HIS ARTICLE “Bad words and thoughts” in ARTIST PROFILE Issue 12, 2010, Joe Frost writes about the many paradoxical ways of using the term ’modern’. You can have a fair bit of fun with ‘modern’: ‘that Swedish moderne chair looks perfect in your very contemporary 1950s retro-look lounge room’. Most of the time we […]
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Jake Walker wins inaugural Arkley Award @ NOTFAIR 2010
IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to the NOTFAIR catalogue, curators Ashley Crawford, Tony Lloyd and Sam Leach, tell us how NOTFAIR 2010 “began, and at heart remains, a humble affair”. What began as a small idea has grown into something that has taken even them by surprise. Coinciding with the behemoth that is Melbourne Art Fair – where the […]
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Issue 11
We take you into the studio of a multimedia trailblazer – photographer, light sculptor, collagist, printmaker, public installation artist and all-round intellectual – Brook Andrew. Artist Profile is granted an exclusive interview and discussion of his new work Jumping Castle War Memorial, which will be on show in the 17th Biennale opening 12 May. Another […]
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NOTFAIR HAS A NEW VENUE
NOTFAIR 2010 – curated by Sam Leach, Tony Lloyd and Ashley Crawford – has outgrown its original venue. Last week the organisers were pleased to announced a bigger, brighter venue. With 32 participating artists, the spacious new warehouse venue allows for more generous space to showcase the artists in this not for profit satellite art […]
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JON CATTAPAN @ SUTTON GALLERY
OVER THE LAST thirty years, Jon Cattapan has established a reputation as one of Australia’s most significant and prolific painters. In this new body of works at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Viridian Eye, the artist extends his exploration of ‘Night Visions’ drawn from his experiences as a commissioned artist for the Australian War Memorial in Timor […]
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Tagged Art, Exhibitions, Jon Cattapan, painting, Sutton Gallery, Timor Leste, War
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JULIAN HOOPER @ GALLERY 9
THIS EXHIBITION of paintings and works on paper by acclaimed New Zealand artist Julian Hooper, presents figures made up of incongruous elements like fish tails and fruit, reminiscent of Arcimboldo. Titled Golden Solvent, this is Julian Hooper’s second solo show at Gallery 9. Curator Victoria Lynn writes: “Hooper has compared them with figures from fashion […]
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ANNA PAPPAS GALLERY @ DEPOT GALLERY, SYDNEY
Anna Pappas Gallery of Melbourne has brought seven of their artists to Sydney. Calling Danks Street’s Depot Gallery home for the next fortnight, Anna Pappas Gallery (APG) is introducing part of her stable to the Sydney art scene. On exhibition is Christina Hayes’ paintings, through which she presents humorous and clumsy characters; following his successful […]
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SODA_JERK @ KUDOS GALLERY, SYDNEY
Dynamo video artist duo Soda_Jerk have been at it again. Their current work titled After the Rainbow is a 2-channel video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Known for their work in found audio and visual samples this video is Soda_Jerk’s second installment in “The Dark Matter Cycle” – a series of video remixes that […]
LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1911-2010
LOUISE BOURGEOIS, famed French-born American sculptor, has passed away in New York aged 98.
DAN PERJOVSCHI ON VERNISSAGE_TV
[youtube ypuXCSJudtA] DAN PERJOVSCHI is an artist who has taken political cartooning out of the news and into galleries, working directly onto the walls of some of the world’s leading art venues, including the atrium of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Much of Perjovschi’s work has dealt with the birth-pangs of the EU, including […]
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Tagged Art, cartooning, Dan Perjovschi, EU, MOMA, political art, Romania, street art, VernissageTV
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