The colonial spasm that started in the seventeenth century, that saw the world carved up to fuel capitalism and created a socio-political landscape that led...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“She is after all not a nature photographer but the photographer of a predicament . . .” Douglas Kahn, Photofile, 1995 I am listening to...
In late 2024, Arthouse Gallery celebrates thirty years at its McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, address but the concept for Arthouse—which originally held the name Arthouse:...
There’s no painter quite like Richard Larter (1929-2014). After emigrating from Britain with his wife Pat and young family in 1962 and settling in Luddenham...
On the rugged northwest coast of Lutruwita | Tasmania, nestled near the leafy Fern Glade Reserve and the winding Emu River, you will find the...
The esteemed contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has spent much of his creative practice questioning and reflecting on the transience of time, human existence and consciousness,...
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...
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...
When I first saw Janaki Peart’s paintings, I felt a rare excitement. I couldn’t recall seeing work by a young painter that felt so certain...
“Smashing the frame,” “moving past the border,” and “breaking out of our structures” are some of the expressions Kellie O’Dempsey uses to describe her need...
The inscription could not have come as a surprise: Parr has long worked with language in a way that is pointed and political. An editioned...
Initially trained as a printmaker (under Michael Kempson, Bruce Latimer and Rew Hanks) Michael Butler enjoyed the form, was thought to be thematically impressive, but...
An artistic life was inevitable for Currey-Billyard, who descends from a “family of artists,” her mother a visual artist, and her father a collaborator who...
