Bathurst has inspired the exhibition yet it’s not an exhibition about Bathurst. My mum grew up there. My grandparents and uncle had a farm there,...
The typical arc of a mid-career retrospective exhibition is that of an artist arriving at a fully formed artistic style. But this major exhibition is...
It’s not as though the national attitude toward acts of terrorism was more permissive in the past. Thank you very much, 2006, in which footage...
When viewing the website of glass artist Nick Mount, the visitor will find the usual content headings, with the exception of “About us” which offers...
What sets us apart from other creatures is our ability to communicate using a series of vocal symbols. As the distinguish British archaeologist Colin Renfrew...
Teo Treloar was twenty-six when he decided to apply to Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), the University of Sydney. He graduated with a bachelor...
The Hunt extends the artist’s practice of beautifully composed photographic images evoking colonial perceptions of the Australian landscape into a series that more directly engages...
The Tank, located in the northern extension of the Art Gallery of NSW, was originally an underground oil reservoir used during the Second World War....
An African folktale was told to Jenny Orchard as a child, in which a woman follows an impossibly beautiful man into a forest. Against his...
The Clumped Spirit at UNSW Galleries is a joint project with the IMA in Brisbane, and the third in a series of annual commissions, funded...
Beyond Our Selves Once, while in Khaled Sabsabi’s studio discussing ideas and future projects, he asked me if I had heard about the concept of...
“Well, it’s APT time . . . again,” I want to say with the on-camera inflections of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, 1993, dejected by...
Aajyna 1998 + 2022 The intangible feeling of hope and hopelessness is inexplicable. Hope can drive and inspire, while hopelessness can leave one feeling empty,...
Dark Clouds and Super Heroes: Khaled Sabsabi Artist’s appeal to our most basic sense of humanity. Some do so by looking at the demure and...
Organised Confusion, 2014, is a multi-channel installation that continues Khaled Sabsabi’s investigation into systems of belief and spirituality, and their role in the construction of...
Khaled Sabsabi / To hold the multiple lives of truth As an artist with a career spanning over four decades, Khaled Sabsabi has, by faith...
Brincat tells me that painting came first and performance later. She initially trained in painting at Sydney College of the Arts and remembers the painting...
It’s surreal. A little over two weeks ago I was invited to a lunch celebrating the announcement of Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the...
Upon entering Kirtika Kain’s studio, I am immediately struck by the force with which her canvases command my attention. The only way I can describe...
In mid-February, Tony Burke, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Arts, attended a citizenship blitz he asked his department to arrange, for migrants...
To seek a moment of quietude amongst the storm of words we need only to return ourselves to Khaled’s work, any one of his works....
Pavilion Lost Khaled Sabsabi chosen and cancelled in one week for the Australian Pavilion in Venice, 2026! How is this possible in Australia in 2025?...
In full support of Khaled Sabsabi’s work Khaled Sabsabi’s artistic research stands as a powerful exploration of his Lebanese heritage and the realities of...
On an unseasonably warm afternoon, Khaled Sabsabi unveils a new mystical world housed in a humble, cramped, tin shed doubling up as his studio at...
Sara Maher was the first artist I met in Tasmania. I encountered Maher gently arranging tiny drawings and prints in a tree for the 2004...
