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Paris: Impressions of Life 1880 – 1925
This exhibition, Paris: Impressions of Life 1880 – 1925, examines aspects of Parisian life drawn from the extensive but relatively little-known collection of the Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, supplemented with a number of strategic loans, mainly from the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Belle Époque (1871–1914) […]
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Harrie Fasher
Harrie Fasher’s bronze and steel equine forms evoke the human vulnerabilities of life, death, struggle and war.
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The 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
History and identity are the main themes of this BoS, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ and Indigenous issues as well as climate change, colonisation, the horrors of war, and the atomic age. The curators bring an enthusiasm to the project and have tried to create a “carnivalesque” atmosphere that celebrates life. The BoS takes place […]
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Christopher Bassi
I meet with Christopher Bassi in his studio on infamous Boundary Street (the former margin of Magandjin / Brisbane’s once segregated city limits). It is well-lit and crisp white—flanked by large canvases in gradating stages of completion and a desk with the usual office tackle. Books naturally pile around, and chronicle painters of influence including […]
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Finding Refuge in Inner Sanctum: The 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Biennials, or biennales, are no mean feat—for curators, artists, host institutions, and audiences. The challenge lies in the delicate dance of marrying a cohesive curatorial theme with the artists selected, balancing the practical aspects of the gallery and potential installation constraints, navigating the artists’ intentions and amount of output realised, whilst considering how audiences will […]
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Vale Ian North
I knew Ian North for more than forty years. I knew him before I met him. In the early 1980s, as Australian correspondent for the Swiss published Printletter photography magazine I was commissioned to write on the Australian National Gallery’s (now National Gallery Australia) photography collection, where Ian was Foundation Curator of Photography. We corresponded […]
Emma Walker
Emma Walker’s paintings have the rare quality of stirring feelings of vague recollection within the subliminal mind.
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Jelena Telecki Mothers, Fathers
Nespokojstvo (foreboding uneasiness) is the Serbian word Jelena Telecki offers for the mood underlying the nine works in Mothers, Fathers. It is her debut solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the first in the Gallery’s inaugural Contemporary Projects series to showcase New South Wales artists. With a subdued palette of […]
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Meagan Streader
To encounter Meagan Streader’s work is to experience the phenomenon of light, not just as a series of wavelengths that bounce off surfaces to reveal the physical world, but as something itself physical, relational and emotional. Slow Rinse, 2019, presented at Dark Mofo, is one of a series of site-specific works made with white electroluminescent […]
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OVER OR NOT
Captain James Cook sailed the Endeavour into Botany Bay in 1770 when William Blake was thirteeen years old. As a child Blake realized he was a mystic “beholding God’s face pressed against his window, seeing angels among the haystacks, and being visited by the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel.” The reigning Monarch, King George lll was […]
Issue 66
Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work. EDITOR’S NOTE History and context are the underlying themes of this thought-provoking issue of Artist Profile. There is an urgency by makers and presenters to provide more nuanced understandings of so many local and global issues. […]
David Hayes
David Hayes will tell you himself that he is just a middle-aged white guy painting the human condition. That’s certainly not a throwaway line. He does deeply examine his own maleness and its entrapment in modern-day and historical conflict. The notion that we are always learning is an important principle to him. When I mention […]
Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing
Whisson was born in Lilydale, Victoria in 1927 and died in 2022 in Sydney. Finding formal training uninspiring he enrolled in an experimental school at Koornong, Victoria in 1945. He came under the formative influence of the untrained Russian immigrant artist, Danila Vassilieff. Concurrently, Whisson met the older first generation of Melbourne modernists: Albert Tucker […]
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Jordan Wolfson: Body Sculpture
Jordan Wolfson first came to the attention of the hermetically sealed New York art world with his work Real Violence, which was shown as part of the Whitney Biennial in 2017. This is an intentionally provocative two-and-a-half-minute video viewed wearing a virtual-reality headset and noise-cancelling headphones. In this work, a CGI dummy resembling the artist […]
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Franck Gohier
In Issue 42, Bridget Macleod spoke to Franck Gohier as he prepared for his exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Annemieke Mein: A Life’s Work
Mein began creating “textile pictures” in 1977, applying an almost forensic level of detail to her exploration of the natural world. She eschewed the “quintessential” faunal imagery, preferring to focus on wetland and coastal species, birds, invertebrates, and the close observation of their diverse habitats. “I like to portray those overlooked creatures that people don’t […]
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Richard Bell: You Can Go Now!
It is surprising to think this is the first full length documentary feature on the iconoclastic Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman, and Gurang Gurang artist Richard Bell, whose career now spans thirty plus years. Knowing Richard’s practice, and his flair for satire, it’s a wonder that Bell has never produced his own mockumentary. Still, this new documentary […]
Vale Richard Dunn
As many artists of his generation experienced, if as a student you showed the slightest creative inclination but also demonstrated academic ability you were funnelled by the school guidance counsellor into an architecture degree: if you were, God forbid, also numerate, your destiny was engineering, certainly not art school. Richard Dunn began his studies in […]
Paul Selwood
Paul Selwood is one of Australia’s foremost sculptors, creating fluid, complex works, often from a single sheet of steel.
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Luke Sciberras
Luke Sciberras’s art is the product of a quarter-century of experiencing the landscape with all his senses. Most recognised for his expressive paintings of Australian and European subjects both close and far from home, his oeuvre is underpinned by an unswerving commitment to drawing, both en plein air and in the studio, and a restless […]
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Naomi Hobson
A Great-Grandchild caressing the hands of her Great-Grandmother, reveals a life journey of profound strength and resistance to the cruelty and burden of colonial history, a burden carried by generations and scarred on their bodies. As a Great-Grandchild traces and massages the welts and legacy of colonial cruelty on her Great Grandmother’s tiny frame and […]
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ELAAA v1.1 & Micheila Petersfield: Personae
Embraced in the Loving Arms of an Algorithm – v1.1 (ELAAA v1.1), is a stark, but intellectually rich and timely exhibition that claims to be curated by an algorithm. It’s the creation of Jon Smeathers, a composer, sound installation artist and recipient of this year’s Contemporary Art Tasmania curatorial mentorship. The four participating artists are […]
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An Exclusive Evening With Henry Jock Walker, Artist Profile & Babyface Kitchen
Egg & Dart Gallery, Wollongong, and Artist Profile warmly invite you to join us for the evening this Friday 26 April, 6.30 pm for a special event, An Exclusive Evening With Henry Jock Walker. Our evening will see Egg & Dart’s, Elisa Trifunoski convene a discussion with artist, Henry Jock Walker and curator, writer and […]
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Euan Macleod: Flux
Accompanied by artist and Orange’s director Brad Hammond, and photographer Craig Potton, he helicoptered onto the mountain ranges. It was his second trip with Potton and a guide, where they spent days documenting and climbing in the area. Growing up in New Zealand, Macleod was attracted to the adrenaline rush of climbing from the age […]
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