What comes to mind when Ballarat, the regional Victorian town in the Central Highlands northwest of Melbourne, is mentioned? The gold rush of the late...
In space, they say, no-one can hear you scream – which is just as well because a lot of us feel like doing just that...
When looking at Swedish artist Micke Lindebergh’s recent paintings, it is difficult not to feel a sense of joy. Relying on a carefully chosen palette...
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine...
Alexakis and Janiszewski have made an interesting choice; two senior and respected Australian artists – of Greek and Egyptian heritage, born in Sydney, but with...
Humans have devised ways of creating sculptural forms out of almost any known or available materials at hand. Stone, metal, timber, glass and plastics. Hair...
Having recently graduated from the National Art School, majoring in ceramics, Parker is searching for her own frames of beauty. As a young artist of...
Surfers Paradise: an amalgam of Florida, Las Vegas and Disneyland, it’s Australia’s playground for everybody, a sunny retirement destination for the well-heeled from southern states,...
In 2007, Gillian Sanbrook bought Bibbaringa, a 950-hectare property located in Wymah Valley on the south west slopes of New South Wales. At the time,...
Peter Godwin takes heart from Picasso’s famous line about Cézanne’s anxiety. It seems to justify his own late-blooming career as an artist who only began...
They say as you get older the policemen get younger – for some of us it’s Directors of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), where...
For many Western Australians, Ross Seaton (1944–2020) was the ‘Walking Man.’ He is a vivid memory, a point of reference, a marker in our unfolding...
‘Seeing and Being Seen,’ William Yang’s latest project, has had a long gestation. It was first proposed by former Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of...
When the great Canadian-born painter Philip Guston’s daughter Musa Mayer wrote a compelling biography Night Studio (1988) about the problems of having a never-around workaholic...
After nearly three decades of traversing, contemplating and capturing desert landscapes throughout Australia and across the world, Jo Bertini found a true connection to the...
But there was distraction. As I went from dramatic image to exhilarating abstract whirls of colour, my eye kept going to two small paintings hanging...
In May this year we lost a precious thing. We did not know that we would mourn it, and many of us did not know...
Twenty years on it is salutary to review what was achieved by the Myer Inquiry into the Visual Arts & Crafts sector.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that photographs in this article contain images of a deceased person.
For thirty years, Lisa Roet’s work has been about primates and the environment we share; about global politics, ignorance, hatred, and personal connection.
Michael Taylor's expressionist compositions speak of an extraordinary intensity and energy maintained over a long and prolific oeuvre.
In his new body of works, Drew Pettifer interrogates the beginning of Australia’s queer history.
Erin McFadyen discusses the problematics and progressions of the nude in contemporary painting.
The task facing the sector is to ensure that what emerges is proactive and aspirational rather than a mirror of our fears and apathy.
The work of Ken Unsworth is often labelled as conceptual. His first public solo exhibit saw him pale, bare and pinioned to the wall in a...
